HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Roman Republic, Augustus Iii Of Poland, Anyte Of Tegea
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Poetry in the greek and roman worlds tuesday, november 22, alexandria 3rd century bc, cosmopolic, ptolemy soter/ 3rd century bc alexandria, egypt, bustling, hellenistic, library of alexandria. Intellectual: examples, alexandria: invention of classical canon of archaic/ classical greek poets, lyric, dramatic, and epic poetry imitation and revision, lyric poetry, melic: Stichic: included iambic poetry, greeks defined poems by topics rather than feats, trash talk poetry, dramatic poetry, narrative poetry, archaic greek poetry, ancient lyric poetry; coincided with widespread adoption/ use of writing, which spread fame of lyric poets. 9 lyric/ melic poets canonized by alexandrians: includes alcaeus, sappho. Example: this is the tombstone of deinias, whom the shameless sea destroyed: alexandrian 3rd bce. Fictional, for fictional people: asclepiades of samos, a bit more humorous, voice from people rather than tombston. Leonidas of tarnetum: often she shook beautifully weaving , satirical, anyte, wrote about dead animals 340 or 320 bce, many epigraphs were written about the symposium of ancient greece ix.
