CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Catullus, Intertextuality, Historically Informed Performance
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Lulu"s presentation - hellenistic intertextuality ceoterics (new poets) - avoid old traditions. Achilles shield: often engages beyond reality of what is able to describe. Joel"s presentation - odysseus and the illad: themes and motifs in homeric epics, both oral traditions. July 20/12: maybe he dictated the final adaptation we have today. History: a holistic approach to the ancient world, you must be historically informed; otherwise you will not appreciate nuances. Study of history is integral to field of classics. Papyri - contracts, legal documents, historical information on administration, land, taxes, etc: not all classicists are historians, but all historians should be able to engage w/ all areas of clas- Defining history" sics: the role of texts - what about prehistory, historie (inquiry) and sungrpahe (writing down, history and historiography, herodotus is first person to use historie, collection of information via inquiry, thucydides uses sungraphe.
