Classics 33: History of Rome. Prof. Luca Grillo, lgrillo@amherst.edu. 3-30-10
16th outline. Culture
I. The Cultural Evolution
Cincinnatus > Catullus > Mamurra
Greece and Rome 753-300
300-44 expansion > culture + money + competition
II. 1st Phase = Translation
Manius Curius Dentatus 270s
Andronikos > Andronicus (c. 290-205)
Odusia, Odysseus = Ulysses
III. 2nd Phase = Adaptation
“Who are you? And where do you come from?”
1. _______________________
Greek: Quintus Fabius Pictor (before 200)
Lucius Cincius Alimentus ~200
For outsiders
Latin: Cato the Elder, Origines (180-50)
For insiders + looking outside + self-promotion
2. ________________________
Ennius (239-169) new Homer
Annales history as epic
Competitive patronage: Cato, Scipio, Nobilior
3. ________________________
Plautus (254-184)
Terence (190-159)
Elite competition
Tragedy: M. Pacuvius (c. 220-130) Paullus
3 conclusions: 1. ______________________ 2. _______________________ 3. _________________________
IV. 3rd Phase = Explosion
Growing social acceptability of literature: daily life and independent writers
102 Quitus Lutatius Catulus
Independent writers; culture and political advancement
Greeks in Rome: Polybius (c. 200-118) and Panetius of Rhodes (Stoic, c. 185-109) >
Philosophy
V. Counter-Culture
1. Titus Lucretius Carus (94-55) De Rerum Natura
Challenges to the mos maiorum
2. Satire, Gaius Lucilius (180-102)
Greek culture and Roman genre and spirit
3. Gaius Valerius Catullus (?84-?54) < Parthenius of Bithynia < doctus Catullus
VI. Assignment: How does Plutarch account for the break between Pompey and Caesar? What are Pompey’s most important accomplishments? What were his aims? Who is responsible for the civil war? Why did Pompey lose it?
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