CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ars Amatoria, Heroides, Elegy
24 Feb 2016
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Men vs women (women indulge in imagination, men more physical) Between 19 and 8 bce: the great voices of the early augustan generation began to fall silent. >8bce horace has died as well as his patron which ends the generation of poets. Few writers in all the great genres (augustan literature) that have left work that survives. Almost as if augustan literature came to an end half-way though augustus" rule. Detached from augustus and the anxieties of the early participate. No sense of relief or personal gratitude towards augustus (as the man who brought civil war to an end) >no sense of owing his freedom to augustus. >elementary instruction (appearance, accomplishments, making contact with men. >finishes with sex (fake orgasm and sex position) >but discards the egocentric focus (personal erotic experiences) >he is not the main lover, but exemplifies himself, takes on role of teacher. =hesiod work and days (700 bce) addressed to perses (brother)
