Horace

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I. Lingua Latina

  • veni, vidi, vici (Caesar)
  • alea iacta est (Caesar)
  • Catullus, Poem 85
    odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
    nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
  • Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
    nihil igitur mors est
  • Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (Cicero)
  • Laudandus, ornandus, tollendus (Cicero on Octavian)
  • Festina lente (a favorite saying of Octavian/Augustus)
  • From Livy's Ab urbe condita
  1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
  2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)
  • From Horace
  1. carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
  2. nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
  3. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)

Reminder: Read all of Vergil's Aeneid for March 23rd. Bring your copy of the Aeneid to class on March 20th and 22nd.

 

Remaining from Tuesday: Livy

II. Horace

A. Horace's Life

B. Satires

  • Satire at Rome
  • Satire 1.9: "The Boor"
  • Satire 1.9 and the topography of Augustan Rome

C. Lyric (Odes)

  1. Love: 1.5
  2. carpe diem: 1.11
  3. Politics and morality: 1.37, 3.2

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Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1918)

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Spring, 2012; TTh 12:30-2:00, WEL 1.316

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