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Roman Literature

Roman Literature. Roman Literature. Latin Prose Literature Entertainment: Epics Lyrical poetry Instruction: Instruction manuals Record keeping: Geographies Encyclopedias Biographies Histories Rhetoric / Oratory Rhetor is Greek word meaning “speaker” Orator is Latin for “speaker”

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Roman Literature

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  1. Roman Literature

  2. Roman Literature • Latin Prose Literature • Entertainment: • Epics • Lyrical poetry • Instruction: • Instruction manuals • Record keeping: • Geographies • Encyclopedias • Biographies • Histories • Rhetoric / Oratory • Rhetor is Greek word meaning “speaker” • Orator is Latin for “speaker” • Both use language to persuade • Cicero produced over 900 epsitles (letters) • Senator in Julius Cesaer.

  3. What does Horace’s lines tell us of Roman literature? Greece, conquered, took her rough conqueror captive And brought her arts into rustic Latium

  4. Virgil’s Rome – from The Aeneid Others will cast more tenderly in bronze Their breathing figures, I can well believe, And bring more lifelike portraits out of marble; Argue more eloquently, use the pointer To trace the paths of heaven accurately And accurately foretell the rising stars. Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples – for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.

  5. Roman Literature • Roman Epic Poetry • Virgil • Aeneid • A literary, not oral, epic • Hero is Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome • Huge impact on the Latin language – huge impact on our education • You will read pieces of this tonight (reading 1.25)

  6. The Aeneid Odysseus Aeneas Wanders the Mediterranean Visits the underworld Sees his father Visits great figures of future founding of Rome Settles in a foreign land; fights and conquers; dies in battle National Epic • Wanders the Mediterranean • Visits the underworld • Sees his mother • Talks with heroes of the past • Returns to his family; dies of old age • Heroic Epic

  7. Roman Literature • Lyric poetry • Virgil • Eclogues • Catullus • Similar to Sappho, whom he admired • Friendship, love, and sex • “Pining for Lesbia” • Poems appear in textbook • Modern, secular voice • You will read a few tonight (reading 1.26)

  8. Satire: • Roman Literature’s greatest legacy • An entirely Roman-invented literary form • Present in older writings, but Romans used as a true form • Definition: • A work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it • http://action.thisisreality.org/page/s/coenbrothers • http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-11-2011/mark-twain-controversy

  9. Satire • A quest to define the good and/or wise man and how he should behave • May describe the faults of the bad person • May find particular fault in a number of people • Equate men with particular animals in order to isolate characteristics • Relate incidents that illustrate particular good or bad traits

  10. Satire • Part of a philosophical exercise • Train reader in wisdom and goodness. • Readers recognize the faults described in themselves and work on eliminating them • Moral purpose

  11. Satire • Juvenal (60-130 BCE) • Wrote Satires • Biting satire against Roman Life • Born in provinces • Area brought under Roman control • Worked as magistrate • Administrator of laws • You will read reading 1.28a tonight.

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