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| Name | Latin Literature in 12 minutes : Virgil, Ovid, Caesar, Cicero, Plautus, Horace, Martial, Catullus,.. |
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| Video Discription | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/litcenter/ old books: If you happen to have some books that you don' want anymore, you can sent them to me. contact me via Instagram (above) so that we can discuss further actions. Latin literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. Latin was of course the language of the ancient romans, but it was also widely used as the lingua franca in western Europe after the fall of the empire. For centuries Latin remained the language of the church, but also secular scholars like Isaac Newton and philosophers like Descartes used Latin to spread their knowledge. In short being fluent in Latin was regarded as a necessary skill to participate at the intellectual top and it often functioned as barrier between the refined upper class and the vulgar dialects of the peasants. So to be clear this video only covers the Latin literature that was written during the time of the Romans. The so called classical period. When people actually spoke Latin in Rome. Early latin literature 240 B.C is generally seen as the beginning of Latin literature. In that year the first recorded Latin translation of a Greek play was staged in Rome. The adaptor of that play was a man named Livius Andronicus. He was not a Roman by birth, but a Greek who had been brought to Rome as a prisoner of war. So, immediately the connection between Greek and Roman literature is clear. The Romans admired the Greek culture ,especially in the early days, and tried to imitate it. Greek literary traditions would be adapted to suit Roman use. That is one of the reasons why their Gods seem so similar. I actually made a separate video about that topic, which you can watch if you want. Perhaps the area in which Roman authors were most successful in imitating the Greeks was theater and in particular comedic plays. In the early days Rome produced several great comedic playwrights, the most prolific of whom was Plautus. s The Golden Age Traditionally, the height of Latin literature has been assigned to the period of 81 BC when Cicero held his first know speech and ended with the death of Ovid in 17 A.D. By the time of the late republic, the political world was filled with conflict. This harsh environment promoted the development of rhetoric. Being able to state you argument clearly and convincingly was highly valued and Roman children were drilled in the art of rhetoric. The two great orators of the late republic were Cicero and Caesar. Marcus Tullius Cicero is considered to be the master of Latin prose. Gaius Julius Caesar everybody knows him as the general and statesman. But he also was a very prominent figure on the literary field. During his lifetime, Caesar was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in Latin —even Cicero spoke highly of Caesar's rhetoric and style. It is believed he wrote multiple works, but unfortunately Only Caesar's war commentaries have survived. The “commentarii de bello Gallico” are the reports Caesar wrote during his time in Gaul. Other famous writers of this period include the historian Sallust and the two poets Catullus and Lucretius. When Caesar was murdered in 44 B.C. a civil war between the Caesar’s assassins and supporters broke out. Octavian, who later when he became emperor changed his name to Augustus, made in 31B.C an end to the civil war with his victory in Actium. He took a personal interest in the literary works produced during his years of power. This period is sometimes called the Augustan Age of Latin Literature. He gathered the most prominent writers and made sure they could work under the best circumstances. The writers had to be careful though. They better not criticized Augustus or his policy or they may get exiled. Ovid is an example of an author who fell into disregard and was therefore exiled. Publius Vergilius Maro (usually called Vergil in English). He is often called the greatest Latin poet. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and of course the epic Aeneid. . After the turbulent civil war The emperor Augustus insisted on vergil to write an epic to glorify the fatherland. Vergil accepted this honorable request and worked the last 11 years of his life writing the Aeneid. Unfortunately he died before he could finish and revise it entirely. ( 58 lines are left blank). The epic recounts the wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas through the mediterreanean after troy had been sacked by the Greeks during the Trojan war. After many adventures Aeneas arrives on Italian soil, where his descendants Romelus and Remus later would found the city of Rome, thereby fulfilling Aeneas destiny. By writing this epic Vergil not only created Rome’s national epic, he also wrote a kind of sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey. And scholars argue that with Vergil The Latin epic poems finally achieved the same quality as the Greek poems [nSPcQ9L9Ge0] |
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