CLAS 160B1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Pythia, Catullus, Asclepeion
14 Nov 2016
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Catullus values: un-roman (love, private pleasure etc) odi et amo i hate and i love - output pretty well. At rome, ca 100 bc a group of poets emerges who emulate the (sophisticated but artificial) alexandrians: the neoteric ( new ) poets. Lesbian: addressee of a lot of catullus poems. Likely a pseudonym for clodia (married) sister of a thuggish ally of caesar and crassus (clodius) Lesbian = from lesbos = recalls sappho, cultural refinement and passion. Catullus poems: vivid first person stuff, not at all like most ancient greek/latin poetry. Greeks and romans believed it could work. Most famous oracle (priest/priestess who could speak for a god) Haruspex: gut-gazer - read guys of animals for divine messages - bronze model liver. Bronze statuette of an augur (bird-flight interpreter) with lituus (ceremonial staff) ca 550. Asklepion (temple of asklepios, god of healing) on kos, where incubation (sleeping in the temple) occurred.
