CLA 2131 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Livius Andronicus, Ludi Romani, Ennius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2131
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Journals/ diaries drama ( tragedy, comedy: technical treatises, historiography speeches/ letteres/ lectures philosophy biography lyric epic satire pastoral. In terms of spoken language, latin began to spiral in late antiguity ( 500, 600, 700) Petrarch 14th century: da vinci 15th century. Livius andronicus , odusia from near tartentum slave born. Tell me the man, muse, the cunning one. He wrote lupus - romulus: ennius ( 239 169 bce, also near tarentum basically claiming he was homer reborn. Lucretius, on the nature of things believes the soul dies with the body praises ennius" success/ skill sa a poet and yet does not agree ( with the transference of souls) For the romans, homer was not just admired for his epics, but percieved as a teacher for all disciplines including natural philosophy etc. January 12th roman theatre metre: long and short syllables.