CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dactylic Hexameter, Mos Maiorum, Catullus
Document Summary
What literature was like in rome and what poetry was for the romans rhyme was not important. Latin meter alternate long and short syllables: metrical composed in meter, dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplets. Most common types of meter anything written in meter is poetry, whatever is not is called prose. Terrence responds to lucius of lavinium adaptations of greek poetry not a straight translation. Luscius translates well but writes badly could not just translate for work to be good must adopt roman attitudes and values. Athenian poetry about the greatness of athens. Greek roots and becomes more roman back to the trojan war. Aeneid unfinished ambiguous in the plot. Aeneas trojan sails to italy and founds roman. Much of the aeneid legitimizes augustus" rule how the caesars are. Aeneid often shows how greek tradition must be shed aeneas casts off his. Aeneas embodies roman values of pietas, dignitas, etc. Virgil reconciles the two stories of aeneas and romulus.
