imperial liturature Flashcards
what is augustan literature
Literature write under the reign of augustus
Each of the great roman writers (and everyone who wanted to be apart of the roman aristocracy) wanted to create their own literary ___
style
what example did lamari give in class of literary styles
Example - a child has a certain style, and an adult doesn’t
Anotha one - a cat has mad style, most humans are most about productivity and efficiency
today we have very _____ style comapred to the romans. expand on this
Romans had a devotion to literary style, in comparison we today have strong fashion style (not as in trends, more as in people who express themselves through their clothing)
other than that, we have very little style in most things we do
Literary style means sort of an expression of one’s _________ and who they are in the way they write
personality
priaor to augustus, authors were usually apart of the ____ ____
upper class
name that augustan author
Member of middle class, his family’s farm was confiscated
Gay and shy
virgil
name that augustan author
Also helped by agustus
Refused to write about anything other than the particular events interesting him
horace
name that augustan author
His style was more structural, placing words next to each other that relate
wrote Odes
horace
name that augustan author
Had an attitude towards authority and augustus
Eventually exiled because of a mistake and a song called Ars Amaroria
ovid
name that augustan author
Augustus popported him and bought him a farm
Said he was like a mother bear
He only wrote three works because he obsessively worked on them working all day on his poetry
virgil
name that augustan author
His style was dark and emotional
he wrote ecogues, georigics, and anead
virgil
name that augustan author
Says its better to go with an older woman cause she experiences
Gave a step by step outline of how to get laid as much as possible
Augustus did not like this because he promoted marriage
ovid
name that augustan author
wrote a poem about spring time
Woman is giving away betrayal with her laugher but she likes it
horace
name that augustan author
wrote metamorphoses
about how to get laid as much as possibke but for a man
ovid
what do we know about ecogues by virgil
Ecogues (first work)
Many short poems
Small “slices of life”
ehat do we know about georigics by virgil
Means farming
Romans thought it to be the best work
Discusses the idff things you can grow, diff kinds of grapes
Sounds boring but cwazy styled descriptions and of each things like cows
what do we know about anead by virgil
His account of the trojan war
Told it from a diff side than homer - side of a trojan hero
what do we know about horace’s odes
Poem about spring time
Last paragraph
Woman is giving away betrayal with her laugher but she likes it
what do we know about ovids work
rebellious againt augustus’ focus on the family of the time
Gave a step by step outline of how to get laid as much as possible for both men and women
the principate was a law concerning the imperium of _________
vespasian
what did the principate hold? why did it go against augusutus
Setting out the powers of the emperors in detail, including which provinces would belong to them
Subsequent emperors had the same “formula”
Goes against what augustus stood for because he liked the idea of not having any official imperium, rather just an untold amount of sway
_________ (emperor) becomes an official title rather than a nickname
Also ________ - means the first eliting citizen becomes a little prince
Eventually even ______ becomes a title instead of a nickname because it distinguished you
imperator
princeps
caesar
Come from ______, and was hailed as an emperor, was able to hold onto it because of the amount of _______ he had
east
soldiers
vespasian was _____ ______ of the ______ family
novus homo of the flavius family
vespasian was the govenor of the ______
judea/the jews
vespasian took part in the ____ jewish war
they looted ______ and their inhabitants
1st
jerusalem
they insisted that only jues be used to transport the ______ from the _______
Did this to demonstrate romes ________
rocks, harbour
authority
