CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gaius Maecenas, Catullus, Dogna
21 Jan 2016
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Marc antony (roman statesmen) become a thing in. Egypt and marc antony is supposed to be looking over governance of eastern half of roman world, besotted with her. Issues coins, him on one side, him on the other = set up as being equals. Civil war fought between mar antony and octavian, octavian will win and cleopatra and marc antony both commit suicide. Propaganda starts being written, by people like horace, and evil queen is the problem. Cleopatra has taken over marc antony"s wits and corrupted him. Call to party at the beginning, light poem. Then goes to talk about context, everyone knows what it is talking about, but in doing so in a focus of peace, focus of merry making. Important: when horace first started writing poetry and came to attention of. Maecenas, was jaded and upset about lot in life changes write started much more positive poetry.
