Criado por Ximena Solsona Morales
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Ancient Greece Literature | |
Literature is closely connected to their conception of cosmos | Beliefs: * Destiny * Men have a responsibility to mantain stability of the cosmos * In a certain point, men will be preys of their own passions (wrath, pride, envy, etc) -> This alters the stability of universe |
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Literary Genres |
Aristotle defined three different literary genres. | * Epic poetry * Lyric poetry *Dramatic poetry |
Epic Poetry | Narrates facts and beings from the external world of the poet. + Heroes, Gods, Demi-Gods + Historical-based, mixed with fantasy. + Passed down generations orally + Popular -> ancestor of novels |
Key authors | Homer was a blind poet. * Iliad and Odyssey. * Batrachomyomachia |
Elegy (lyric poetry) | Is a lyrical poem referring to and expressing feelings instead of telling a story. |
Key authors | * Callinus * Mimnermus = Love * Archilochus = Hatred |
Lyric Poetry | Poetry that was intended to be sung among friends with a lyre. |
Key authors | * Sappho *Anacreon *Pindar (Odes) |
Dramatic poetry | Works meant to be performed or acted in a scenario. |
Drama has three different sub-genres. | |
Key authors: Tragedy. | * Aeschylus (The Persians, The Oresteia, Prometheus bound) *Euripides (19 works remain like: Medea, The Trojan Women) *Sophocles (Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Ajax) |
Key authors: Comedy and satire | *Epicarno *Aristophanes (Assemblywomen, The Clouds) *Cratinus (Pytine) |
Latin Literature | Romans adapted Greek models and transmitted them across the Empire. |
Literary Genres | Theatre Prose Epic Poetry Lyric Poetry Elegy |
Latin Comedy | It's different from the Greek comedy because it talks about private lives insted of politics. |
Key authors | *Plautus (20 comedies still available: Amphytrion, Mercator) *Terentius (Andrius, Hecyra (the mother-in-law)) |
Tragedy | There were some authors that wrote tragedies but few fragments remain nowadays. Two types: Greek content and Roman content. |
Prose | "Cicero era" -> 86 B.C - 44 B.C Political revolutions, wars, literary peak. |
Key authors | *Cicero (De inventione, De oratore) *Julius Caesar: "Great Roman historian". (The Gallic Wars, The Civil War) |
Epic Poetry | It hits the peak during the Augustan era, a period of peace and floushing of the arts and literature. |
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*The Eclogues *The Georgics *The Aeneid |
Lyric Poetry and Elegy key authors | *Catulus (116 poems: Book of Catulus in Verona) *Horace (Odes, Epistols and Satires) *Ovid (Remedia amoris, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Heroides) |
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