CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Iullus Antonius, Simile, Catullus
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Publius ovidius naso: 43 bce 17 ce, old equestrian family, older brother, one year apart, unlike vergil, ovid doesn"t belong to a long period of civil war, uncertainty, and anxiety d. i. By the time he"s a teenager, augustus is ruling: quinquatrus (march 19-23, holiday to minerva, one birthday but two cakes, public career for two sons h. i. Ovid held a minor political office in rome (one of the boards of three), but abandoned a public career in law and chose to go no further: death of his brother. The aonian sisters: aonia (mountain range in boeotia in greece and mythological home of the. Nine muses: kept urging me to seek safe leisure (aka poetry) b. i. They actually only saw each other once: the ancient elegiac couplet e. i. Alternating verses of six and five measures (feet) e. ii. Elegiac poetry composed in alternating verses six and five feet.
