CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scipionic Circle, Ennius, Panaetius
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11 & 12 = supplementary laws: lot of the laws have to do with property. Carmen: spell or incantation (evil, religious formula or ritual language (good, later the word for song and poem. Epitaphs: burial inscriptions from the tomb of the family of scipio africanus, name all your accomplishments on the tomb. Livius andronicus: greek citizen from the city of tarentum (italy, perhaps came to rome as a slave, first performance of a drama in rome, 240 bce: comedy or tragedy, translation of homer"s odyssey e. i. Rome is beginning to appropriate greek culture: textbook for school children, only fragments of his epic and plays survive. Plautus: titus maccius plautus, born in sarsina, 254-184 bce c. i. Last years of second punic war: slapstick comedy, outrageous and crude, role of the scheming slave, stock characters. Originally built at the end of the 4th, enlarged in 2nd century bce e. iii.
