chapter 10

Question 1

latin literature

Answer 1

Influence from Greece!
• Exposure to Greece through warfare and diplomacy

• Greek culture as booty
• Artworks
• Slaves
• Manuscripts

Question 2

Earliest latin literature

Answer 2

• Theatre- a controllable genre
• Epic- praises heroic virtues and the state

Question 3

Plautus, active early 2nd c. BCE

Answer 3

• Ca. 20 plays survive
• Comedies using plots from Greek comedies
• Sit-com styles
• Stock characters and situations
• Interest in low-status characters

Question 4

Under Augustus: Golden Age of Latin
Literature

Answer 4

• Image of a new age under Augustus
• Call themselves the Golden Age
• Create masterpieces in the major genres
• Strong Greek influence

Question 5

Vergil, lived 70-19 BCE

Answer 5

• From northern Italy
• Writing in Augustan period
• Most famous work is Aeneid
• The “Latin Homer”

Question 6

The Aeneid, 12 books

Answer 6

•Written in 20s BCE
• Aeneas
-Ancestor of the Juli through son lulus
•Pietas: duty to gods, state, family
• Pius Aeneas
•Matches Augustus’ interest in religion

Question 7

Horace, lived 68
BCE to 8 CE

Answer 7

• Son of a freedman
• Expensive education in Rome and Athens
• Became an equestrian

Question 8

Horace’s poetry

Answer 8

• Satires
• Poetry (including love poetry)
• Letters (in verse)

Question 9

Livy (historian), lived 64 BCE- 12 CE

Answer 9

• From northern Italy
• 142 books, written over 40 yrs
• From founding of Rome to death of Drusus, 9 BCE

Question 10

Latin love poetry

Answer 10

•Catullus’ love poetry in
50s BC
• Emphasis on love, emotion
• Poet falls in love with married woman
•Woman controls relationship
• Code name for lover

Question 11

Last of the love poets: Ovid
(43 BCE-18 CE )

Answer 11

• P. Ovidius Naso
• Grew up in Pax Augusta
• Love poetry to “Corinna”
• Metamorphoses: myths where someone is transformed

•Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
•De-emphasizes pursuit of married women
•Augustan laws on marriage and adultery