AHCL 2302H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pro Caelio, Pseudolus, Cursus Honorum

• School: Trent University
• Department: Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
• Course: AHCL 2302H
• Professor: Joseph Kispel Kovacs

Document Summary

Focus on rome, 770 bce kingdom republic 509-27 bce empire constantinople o. Sicily and magna greacia (heavily populated with greeks) 146 bce: destruction of carthage (other great city) Also defeated corinth and added greece to their empire formally. 30 bce: addition of egypt to roman power/rule. Plautus (c. 245 180 bce: only date 3 plays, earliest complete roman poet. Juvenal (early 2nd century: later roman poet. Livius andronicus (c. 284-204 bce: odyssey translation into latin; various tragedies and comedies o. First staging 240 bce: ludi romani roman games : greek-born slave/war-slave (captured), not born slave, name been romanized o. First one to translate lit. into another language: roman poets aren"t constrained by genre. Ennius (c. 239 c. 169 bce: annales, various comedies and tragedies (roman and greek), only fragments o. First great roman poet: may not have been native latin speaker. Spoke greek, latin, oscran: gives himself direst relation (not familial) with homer.