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11th Grade
02/15/2013

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Livius Andronicus
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: translated the odyssey into Latin as poetry in Saturnian verse
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Gnaenus Naevius
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: 1st native roman writer, created bellum punicum = first Punic war in saturnanian verse
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Quintus Ennius
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: Born in Rudiae, knew three Lang. Latin, Oscan , and Greek (3 hearts) MVP= Annales, 18 books long in diactylic hexameter, the 1st writer to adapt  Greek hexameter verse into Latin 
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Titus Maccus Plautus
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: A comic playwright of 130 only 20 survived, 1 more large fragment of vidularia 
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Some of his plays include:
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Amphitryon
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Concerns jupiters love for alcema, the wife of Amphitryon
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Auluaria
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The pot of gold
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Captivi
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The captives: concerns a man named Hegio searching for his lost sons, NO FEMALE CHARACTERS
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Epidicus
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Plautus' favorite play
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Menaechmi
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The twins one of his most successful comedies, two twin brothers find themselves in Syracuse
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Miles Gloriosus
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The braggart solidier
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Mostellaria
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The Haunted House
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Poenullus
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The Carthigian: contains the only surviving passages of the Carthagian language
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Pseudolus
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Main character helps his master obtain enough money to free a courtesan
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Cato the Elder
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Born in Tusculum, fought in the 2nd Punic war, always says " Carthage must be destroyed". 1st prose writer 1st to write roman history in Latin. He wrote Origines a lost work in seven books. De Agri Cultura= hand book to agr. Is the first surviving Latin prose
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Terence

(publius terentius afer)

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Born in Carthage was friends with Scipio Aemilianus; wrote 6 plays, died during a trip to Greece
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His 6 plays were
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Andria
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The woman of Andros
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Hecyra
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The mother in law
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Heauton Timorumenos
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The self-tormentor
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Eunuchus
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The eunuch
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Phormio
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Idk
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Adelphi
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The brothers
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Lucretius
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Born in Rome he followed the epicurean philosophy, he took a love potion and went insane and committed suicide. Only surviving work is De Rerum Natura ( the nature of things) the unfinished didactic poem to gaius Memmius it was 6 books long
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The greatest Latin orator he was born in arpinum in 106 bc his earliest extant speech was Pro Quinctio, he argued with Hortensius
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Sallust
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A historian born in 86 B.C

Bellum Catilinae: Caroline's conspiracy 

Bellum Jugurthinum: praise Marius in the war against king Jugurtha

Historiae: covered 78 to 67

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Catullus

 

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A lyrical poet born in Verona 

fell in love with clodia who was married to Q. Caecilius Metellus (lesbia)

went to Bythinia and was on staff for the governor, Gaius Memmius 

he later visited his brothers grave where he then wrote an effigy       ( poem 101)

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Gaius Julius Ceasar
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Born in Rome in 102 B.C

he followed the attic style

Commentarii de bello Gallico- 7 books from 58 to 52

Hirtius wrote the 8th

Commentarii de bello civili- 3 books

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Vergil
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Born in Andes near Mantua in 70 B.C

Maecenas became his patron

Eclogues- in 37bc ten poems 

Georgics in 29bc 4 books in dactylic hexameter suggested by Maecenas

spent the last 1Yrs of his life on Aeneid

he died in Brundisium in 19bc was buried in Naples 

Varius and Tucca were asked to burn it but Augustus ahead them edit it 

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Vitruvius
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Wrote De Architectura - which was dedicated to Augustus
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Horace
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Born in Venusia in 65 B.C 

Vergil introduced him to Maecenas who later gave him a Sabine farm

 he wrote his first book of satires in 35bc, 2nd and Epodes in 30bc, and 3 books of odes between   33 & 23 bc 

book of Epistles in 20 bc 

the Carmen Saeculare in 17 bc

a 4th book of odes and a 2nd Epistles and the Ars Poetica in 15bc he died in 8bc 

Saturae(sermons): show superiority of country over city life, friendship, they shoes influence from Lucilius

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Livy
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A historian born in patavium in 59bc

Ad Urbe Condita: 142 books long only 21 remain it ends in 9 bc with the death of Drusus

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Propertius
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Born in assisium in 50bc

fell in love with a woman called Cynthia in poems or Hostia

wrote 4 elegies 1st in 28bc last in 16 bc

Maecenas was his primary patron 

Elegies: 1st goes to show his love for Cynthia which turns into despair from her unfaithfulness

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Tibullus
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Born in 48bc belonged to the circle of M.Valerius Messalla

had 2 elegies 

Delia: after a woman of which he was in love with( plania could also be her name)

Nemesis:

after his death a 3rd book of poems was published in his name: 6 by Sulpicia<= woman, 

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Emperor Augustus
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Coined phrase "On the Greek Kalends", meaning never

wrote autobiography, 14 books long, which is lost

Monumentum Ancyranum: (res Gestae) an account of his public life

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Ovid
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Born in 43bc in Sulmo

he wrote Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Medicina Faciei, and a tragedy called Madea of which only two lines survive

augustus banished Ovid to Tomi

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The first century B.C is called the Golden Age of Latin Literature

 

The Silver Age is subsequent Literature until the Christian period

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Emperor Claudius
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Wrote a Greek history of the Etruscans
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Seneca the Elder
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Was known as "rhetor" 

wrote Controversiae (5) and Suasoriae (1)

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Seneca the Younger
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Born in Corduba, Spain

he wrote :

Apocolocyntosis: mocking Claudius of becoming a pumpkin instead of a God 

Naturales Quaestiones: a work of natural science from a stoic pov.

Epistulae Morales: 124 letters to his friend Lucilius on philosophy 

nine or ten tragedies :

Medea: based on Euripedes play only more sympathetic to Jason 

Octavia: only complete Fabula Praetexta

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Pliny the Elder
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Born in 23AD in Comum

Historia Naturalis: ENCYCLOPEDIA in 37 books- a history of German wars in 20 books 

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MARTIAL
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Born in Bilbilis, Spain

given Ius Trium Liberorum

he wrote:

Liber Spectaculorum: in honor of the colosseum opening 

he is most famous for epigrams 1500 to 14

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Tacitus
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Born in northern Italy 

he wrote

Agricola: a biography of his father in laws life and his military exploits 

Germania: also published in 98 basically the culture and war style of Germans

Annales: 18 books long yrs 14-68 most of it is lost

Historiae: originalily a history from 69-96 12 books long a lot of it is lost too

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Pliny the younger
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Born in comum

govenor of Bithynia 

most famous for his letters describing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius 

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Suetonius
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A historian 

he wrote 

De Viris Illustribus: "on famous men " biographies on literary figures

De Vita Caesarum: " the lives of the Caesars" biography of Julius Caesar and the emperors through domilition 

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Apuleius
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Born in Madaura

accused of winning his wife by magic for wealth

Apologia: defending himself ^^^

the golden donkey: Metamorphoses lucius is transformed into a donkey wich includes the story of CUPID and PYSCHE

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Aulus Gellius
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"Attic nights" 

Noctes Atticae

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