CLAC11H3 Lecture Notes - Mos Maiorum, Elegy, Catullus
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Content similar to midterm: mp , fill in the blank, author identification(3), short answer(4) Fill in the blank: learn the words: last class: review and handouts missing. Elegy: comes from elegas : designated a poem in the alegic cuplet. Pentameter: also called elegaiac couplet the one with the indented one is 5 feet. Elegy : was used for poems all different type of themes, motifs and. Invective, eroctic, political and poets solen and calilcahus. What is the latin love elegy : it is about love : subjective and biographical . Latin elegy: distinct genre : distinct form in latin and no equilivent in greek. The genre : has reference to greek poetry : Catullus :ancestor for the elegest : catullus : poetry similar to elegest : girlfriend lesbian. Emphasis : on otium : leisure : shunning the life of citizen/ duties of rome in favior of litary and sexual persuit.
