Roman Contributions To The Epic Tradition

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Roman Contributions To The Epic Tradition

• By
• Patrick Barber, Nelia Higuera, Zulema Torres,
  Phuong Le, Rickeda Phillips, and Whisper Williams

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Epic

• An extended narrative poem recounting actions,
  travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and
  written in a high style.

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 B.C.E. ca. 54
B.C.E.)

• Catullus was one of the most influential Roman
  poets of the first century B.C.E. Catullus is
  easily the most talented lyric poet in Roman
  literature, but his works were very controversial
  in his own times, remaining clouded over by
  controversy throughout the Middle Ages. Catullus
  subscribed to Epicurean philosophy, and his
  poetry, in keeping with his Epicurean beliefs,
  deals rather explicitly with amorous love.
  Moreover, Catullus fiercely criticized the
  political and military leaders of his generation
  he openly mocked the epic style of ancient
  poetry, criticizing even Homer as overblown,
  concerned exclusively with battles and wars, and
  never paying any attention to the things that
  mattered to ordinary people.

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Sparrow, O, Sweet Sparrow

• Sparrow, O, sweet sparrow, love of my lady love,
  she whos always nursing you between her breasts
  and feeding you her finger-tips she that radiant
  lady, delicious in her play with you, for a while
  forgetting all the deeper wounds of love. I envy
  her. This pastime would raise my heart from
  darkness.

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Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC
September 21, 19 BC)

• Virgil was a classical Roman poet, best known for
  three major worksthe Eclogues (or Bucolics), the
  Georgics, and the Aeneidalthough several minor
  poems collected in the Appendix Vergiliana are
  also attributed to him.
• Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's
  greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a
  national epic of Rome and has been extremely
  popular from its publication to the present day.
  His epic, the Aeneid, had followed the literary
  model of Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

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Virgil Cont

• The Aeneid written by Virgil from 29 to 19 BC,
  that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a
  Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became
  the ancestor of the Romans.

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC AD 17/18)

• Ovid was a Roman poet who is best known as the
  author of the three major collections of erotic
  poetry Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. He is
  also well known for the Metamorphoses, a
  mythological hexameter poem the Fasti, about the
  Roman calendar and the Tristia and Epistulae ex
  Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile
  on the Black Sea.

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Metamorphoses

• Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem in
  fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid describing
  the history of the world from its creation to the
  deification of Julius Caesar within a loose
  mythico-historical framework. Completed in AD 8,
  it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age
  Latin literature. The most-read of all classical
  works during the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses
  continues to exert a profound influence on
  Western culture.

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Work Cited

• Aeneid. Wikipedia. 10 Sept. 2011. Web. 10
  Sept. 2011
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid
• Catullus. New World Encyclopedia. 3 April.
  2008. Web. 10
• Sept. 2011.
• http//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cat
  ullus
• Catullus. Sparrow, O, Sweet Sparrow. Trans.
  Horace Gregory. The Bedford
• Anthology of World Literature. Vol 1.
  Compact Edition. Paul Davis, et.al. Boston
• Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 797. Print.
• Metamorphoses. Wikipedia. 4 Sept. 2011.
  Web. 10 Sept. 2011
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses

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Work Cited Cont.

• Ovid. Wikipedia. 7 Sept. 2011. Web. 10
• Sept. 2011.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid
• Virgil. Wikipedia. 6 Sept. 2011. Web. 10
• Sept. 2011.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil

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Duty Roster

• Patrick Barber.. PPT, Pictures, Read slide 1-2
  
• Nelia Higuera Pictures, Read slide 3
• Zulema Torres.. Read slide 4
• Phuong Le Read slide 5
• Rickeda Phillips Read slide 6-7
• Whisper Williams.. Read slide 8-11