CLAC11H3 Lecture Notes - Plautus, Vates, Otium
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Next class: games of venus: tobalus, sherpisa : tebulis : end of book. Rome was in touch with hellenic culture. Roman are in contact with greek culture and art before they got in touch with them ( 3rd century bc) Before 240 bc : there were poems but oral : song culture : associated with religion, traces remain in early roman literature. The native land word for poet : vates : latinpoets use including horace : Textual literature : applies to meter, genre, 240 bc. Livy : translates a greek play into latin, odyssey : first translatin : and livy is greek. Difference of exception of literature in greek and rome : greece: rome: conscious modeling on previous texts, more delifbaetate and amore consice form the very beginning. The majority of what we have is mostly drama: Early greek poets translate greek tragedy : for entertainement. Comedy: translation survived but models did not.
