imperial liturature

Question 1

what is augustan literature

Answer 1

Literature write under the reign of augustus

Question 2

Each of the great roman writers (and everyone who wanted to be apart of the roman aristocracy) wanted to create their own literary ___

Answer 2

style

Question 3

what example did lamari give in class of literary styles

Answer 3

Example - a child has a certain style, and an adult doesn’t

Anotha one - a cat has mad style, most humans are most about productivity and efficiency

Question 4

today we have very _____ style comapred to the romans. expand on this

Answer 4

Romans had a devotion to literary style, in comparison we today have strong fashion style (not as in trends, more as in people who express themselves through their clothing)

other than that, we have very little style in most things we do

Question 5

Literary style means sort of an expression of one’s _________ and who they are in the way they write

Answer 5

personality

Question 6

priaor to augustus, authors were usually apart of the ____ ____

Answer 6

upper class

Question 7

name that augustan author

Member of middle class, his family’s farm was confiscated
Gay and shy

Answer 7

virgil

Question 8

name that augustan author

Also helped by agustus
Refused to write about anything other than the particular events interesting him

Answer 8

horace

Question 9

name that augustan author

His style was more structural, placing words next to each other that relate
wrote Odes

Answer 9

horace

Question 10

name that augustan author

Had an attitude towards authority and augustus
Eventually exiled because of a mistake and a song called Ars Amaroria

Answer 10

ovid

Question 11

name that augustan author

Augustus popported him and bought him a farm
Said he was like a mother bear
He only wrote three works because he obsessively worked on them working all day on his poetry

Answer 11

virgil

Question 12

name that augustan author

His style was dark and emotional

he wrote ecogues, georigics, and anead

Answer 12

virgil

Question 13

name that augustan author

Says its better to go with an older woman cause she experiences
Gave a step by step outline of how to get laid as much as possible
Augustus did not like this because he promoted marriage

Answer 13

ovid

Question 14

name that augustan author

wrote a poem about spring time
Woman is giving away betrayal with her laugher but she likes it

Answer 14

horace

Question 15

name that augustan author

wrote metamorphoses

about how to get laid as much as possibke but for a man

Answer 15

ovid

Question 16

what do we know about ecogues by virgil

Answer 16

Ecogues (first work)
Many short poems
Small “slices of life”

Question 17

ehat do we know about georigics by virgil

Answer 17

Means farming
Romans thought it to be the best work
Discusses the idff things you can grow, diff kinds of grapes
Sounds boring but cwazy styled descriptions and of each things like cows

Question 18

what do we know about anead by virgil

Answer 18

His account of the trojan war
Told it from a diff side than homer - side of a trojan hero

Question 19

what do we know about horace’s odes

Answer 19

Poem about spring time
Last paragraph
Woman is giving away betrayal with her laugher but she likes it

Question 20

what do we know about ovids work

Answer 20

rebellious againt augustus’ focus on the family of the time

Gave a step by step outline of how to get laid as much as possible for both men and women

Question 21

the principate was a law concerning the imperium of _________

Answer 21

vespasian

Question 22

what did the principate hold? why did it go against augusutus

Answer 22

Setting out the powers of the emperors in detail, including which provinces would belong to them
Subsequent emperors had the same “formula”

Goes against what augustus stood for because he liked the idea of not having any official imperium, rather just an untold amount of sway

Question 23

_________ (emperor) becomes an official title rather than a nickname

Also ________ - means the first eliting citizen becomes a little prince

Eventually even ______ becomes a title instead of a nickname because it distinguished you

Answer 23

imperator

princeps

caesar

Question 24

Come from ______, and was hailed as an emperor, was able to hold onto it because of the amount of _______ he had

Answer 24

east
soldiers

Question 25

vespasian was _____ ______ of the ______ family

Answer 25

novus homo of the flavius family

Question 26

vespasian was the govenor of the ______

Answer 26

judea/the jews

Question 27

vespasian took part in the ____ jewish war

they looted ______ and their inhabitants

Answer 27

1st

jerusalem

Question 28

they insisted that only jues be used to transport the ______ from the _______

Did this to demonstrate romes ________

Answer 28

rocks, harbour

authority