Lygdamus 2 Notes

Question 1

What were rituals undertaken at a funeral?

Answer 1

Show love, embrace the bones, offer a lock of hair, make a ritual prayer

Question 2

Does he doubt that Neara will be sad at his funeral? How do we know?

Answer 2

No because he uses iussive subjunctives ‘let her’

Question 3

What is there pleonasm of?

Answer 3

‘Qui’

Question 4

What does he mean by ‘a man of stone’?

Answer 4

Harsh hearted

Question 5

Which lines can you change the order?

Answer 5

Lines 3-4

Question 6

What is the ‘nostro’ on line 5?

Answer 6

Royal ‘we’

Question 7

What is significant about putting ‘dolor’ as the last word on a line?

Answer 7

Harsh sound to finish

Question 8

What sounds are prevalent on line 6?

Answer 8

‘D’ and ‘or’

Question 9

Where are there fricatives?

Answer 9

‘Frangit fortia’

Question 10

What is shown on line 8?

Answer 10

Lots of genitives yet they are very much separated from each other

Question 11

What sort of subjunctives are present?

Answer 11

Iussive

Question 12

What does the idea of her hair being long and in disarray show?

Answer 12

Unkempt and dishevelled in her grief

Question 13

Who else does he want to mourn his death?

Answer 13

Neara’s mother

Question 14

Who are the Manes?

Answer 14

Spirits of the dead meant to be feared. They decide on the death of a person. Thought to be their friends and also called the Lares. Special festival called Feralia to them on 19th February

Question 15

Where is there a contrast?

Answer 15

‘Nigra candida’

Question 16

What is ‘mellow Lyaeus’?

Answer 16

Wine of Bacchus

Question 17

What is the meaning of milk at a Roman funeral?

Answer 17

Nourish the dead’s appetite and also represents Juno. Breast milk

Question 18

What is a central part of a Roman funeral?

Answer 18

Gathering bones

Question 19

Where is Assyria?

Answer 19

A country next to modern day Syria diagonally and below Aremenia

Question 20

What does ‘celebri… fronte’ mean?

Answer 20

In public display

Question 21

Which word ends 3 lines?

Answer 21

Dolor

Question 22

Which word is repeated in the first two lines?

Answer 22

‘Puellae’

Question 23

What is thought to happen when you die?

Answer 23

You become a shade of the underworld

Question 24

The white bones contrasts…

Answer 24

The black ash

Question 25

What did linen cloths normally do?

Answer 25

Shade people in the theatre and were for entertainment

Question 26

Where was Panchaia and what was it famous for?

Answer 26

An island in the South below Arabia. Famous for spice trees and wealth of silver and gold

Question 27

Why does Lygdamus mention places famous for riches?

Answer 27

Wants his grave to be covered in luxury

Question 28

What were signs of mourning?

Answer 28

Dishevelled hair and scratching cheeks. Cannot look good/ appropriate