CLA160H1 Lecture : Week 11 - Aneid - Books 1-4
Document Summary
5:38 pm: timeline of epic, archaic period (776-479 bc) Lyric and elegiac: classical period (479-323 bc, hellenistic period (323-31 bc) Very influential on latin epic: introduction to virgil"s aeneid, by common consent this is the greatest epic in latin literature, do have other latin epics, dated to after virgil, virgil. Born 70 bc in mantua, died in 19 bc. Educated in milan, family must have been reasonably well-off to afford this. Family seems to have some land confiscated in the civil wars. 4 poems of several hundred lines each about farming. Modeled in part of hesiod"s works and days and hellenistic. Apparently wrote two lines of poetry a day. Was unrevised at the time of his death. Some of the lines are half the length they should be. Unknown if he was going to write another 12 to make it 24 like poems. Most scholars argue he only meant to write 12.
