CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Private Library, Georgics, Catullus
6 Jun 2017
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Some liked to show themselves as very learned women. Burned scrolls from villa of papyri: private library, because of mt. vesuvius, carbonized, tried to unroll them (with machines) but couldn"t. Had a small portable scroll box to carry scrolls around (made with beech wood) known as capsa. City vs countryside, over-refinement vs real virtue: city was for business; leisure was in the countryside negotium vs otium. Giving idea what kind of behaviour people in parties could have. Talking about enjoying the leisures of the countryside too much. Italy and humanitas pliny the elder, the natural history. We are under the time of pliny the elder, lots of land at this time. The gods civilized the rest of the world and became the fatherland and motherland of the people. Became a language that was understood and spoken by multitudes of people. Brave roman soldiers were scared of these people because they acted in such a different way.
