CLA160H1 Lecture 19: CLA160 Lecture 19 Notes
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Judaea: egypt, britain travel and ethnography in literature prose literature of the empire places nature of evidence, especially for common people. History not second sophistic but latin prose from the 1st century a. d. paradox of the peripheral other at the center of the roman world authors composing stories with monsters, exotic peoples, etc. Paradox of rome as the other to greeks. Horace conquering the rustic latium in early history. Etruscans, latins, sabines considered to be in outskirts. The odyssey conception of only a dim greek conception of the italian peninsula. Hesiod"s theogony on the sons f odysseus and circe in the land of the. Etruscans latinus and agrios translated as mr. The odyssey as travel literature of the past all lies mixing of poetry and prose. Growth of the empire travelling to provincial places both east and west evidence documents and letters focus: