Poetry
Catullus
80s - 50s
We know more than about Lucretious
Republican Poets
Lucretious
Six books of his works survive
De rerum natura
On the Nature of the Universe
Died before poem was finished
Cicero took it up to edit it.
Augustan Poets
Ovid
Horace
Pre-Roman
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
The ancients believed in a unambigious man, Homer
Greek Genre Movements
Epic
Narrative
Militant
Voluminous
800 BC
Lyric
non-narrative
emotional
sensual
Brevity-focused
700 - 600 BC
Catullus translated Sappho
Tragedy
Hellenistic
Alexanderian
Deliberately Obscure
Written in abtruse, referential fashion
Catullus translates Challimachus
Then Alexander Pope translated Catullus' Latinate
Didactic
First Latin Poetry
Livicus Andronicus
Translated the Odyssey
Only the first line survives to Present Date
240 BC
Ennius
190s BC
Annals, 20k lines
Poetry
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Poetry