CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Aeneid
30 Mar 2017
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The christmas song: songs about being home with your family, reenacting traditions, having lots of joyful activity with your family, etc. Christmas songs: when are these written: 1940s and 50s, context is during the world war! Writers of these songs have gone through this, thinking with great enthusiasm about how things used to be, the good old days . Horace and vergil: urge people to return to traditional values, have experienced civil war rsthand and are reacting to it by writing about old times, like the christmas songs above. Phases of roman literature: initial period. 3rd and 2nd centuries bc: golden age. 100 bc to ad 14 (death of augustus: silver age. Ad 14-180 (high empire: later latin literature. Ovid: different than vergil and horace, publius ovidius naso. Tuesday, march 15, 2016: born in 43 bc and lives to ad 17, represents the next generation, the one that doesn"t really understand why.
