RCL Literature Flashcards
Horace
Smiling Satirist
likes simple humble countryside life
Maecenas as patron- gave villa, poetry for Octavian
sermones- chatty style
lived through civil war
Juvenal
Angry Satirist
lawyer
love-hate
Petronius
consul, Nero
satirises social attitudes
Horace 2.2
lecture on simple life
Ofellus, peasant farmers ideas
glutton
miser- Avidienus
quotes Ofellus, epicurian
H 2.2
dined well with a prayer to Ceres
pale, bloated
the dog- soured, old vinegar
something huge served in a huge dish
peacock, pullet
Horace 2.6
prayer of thanks to Mercury
grateful for country
contrasts city, visits maecenas
town mouse and country mouse by Cervius
Horace 2.6
make these blessings last
envied, not a thing
occupied the zenith
Molossian hounds
vetch, oats
Horace 2.8
nomentanus- namer
porcius- hog
balatro- buffoon
nasideinus- nose
H 2.8
fled from him
wept head bowed, son
apples by the light of waning moon
caught before spawning
Juvenal’s Satires
comparisons to celebrities
too small for Procula- Cordus
Ucalegon- set on fire- epic hexameter reference
deprive a Claudius of sleep
Corbulo- could not carry- general
grieving like Achilles
Juvenal’s satires bad stuff
Liburnian Galley
few teeth left
game preserve
ancient yawning crack
Trimalchio’s dinner party Q
silver lares
beard of the master golden casket
T holding Mercury’s staff
Alexandrian boys, signing as they went
silver toothpick, musical accompaniment
shrew, magpie
hens milk, attic honey
corinth ware
Rat Race
pointless
dull things!
silly tasks
o the sea the shore, good honest life
Zosimus
gentle as a father
educated, lyre, comic actor, listing
air is healthy
good health by self denial
I hate racing!
grown, so childishly
bit of cloth
dirt cheap serious men!
