CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Red Junglefowl, Sophist, Catullus
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Cla260 fragments: there are fragmentary works and fragmentary authors, deipnosophistai (the food sophists) by athenaeus which is a work about eating and drinking at parties. There is a fragment which is a fragment within a complete text because we don"t have any works of alcaeus. In this passage we have two quotations: 1. ) One is a fragment in which we don"t know the text from which it is from--> known as alcaeus fr. 369 who is a poet from the 6th century b. c. and 2. ) This is from the bacchae, a complete play that we have, which dates to 743 and was first performed in 405 b. c. Actium and the army in egypt because octavian had to leave and he gave command to. In 1979 a papyrus was discovered in egypt in a fort in the upper nile that dates to the.
