CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: General Idea, Aeschylus, Plautus
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In epic you have an epic poet who can name himself but he speaks directly to the audience. In tragedy you have no poet and the choruses are the ones who are speaking. It emerged out of choral song of dionysus, when actors were distinguished from the chorus. It derives from the word lyra, lyre and it means always sung. Choral- sung and danced, more public, elaborate metres 2. ) Monodic- more personal, simpler metres: horace"s odes is the high point of latin lyric. Lucilius was recognized as the "father of satire" and his work is characterized as being outspoken and autobiographical: three major satirists: horace, persius, and juvenal. In the works of juvenal they pick up this moral tone and christian authors favour him because of this moralizing tone: elegy. In greek it is defined by elegiac couplet(hexameter r+ pentameter) and they are often sung in the symposia: one of the well known elegiac poets is theognis.
