Greek-Roman Literature

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Primero Literatura FlashCards sobre Greek-Roman Literature, criado por Ximena Solsona Morales em 21-09-2018.
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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
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.
Virgil *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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