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Each poem normally has a archetype person Horace decides to shame, or teach a lesson to. Horace modelled these poems on the poetry of Archilochus. Social bonds in Rome had been decaying since the destruction of Carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption. [35]
Latin prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία prosōidía, 'song sung to music', 'pronunciation of syllable') is the study of Latin poetry and its laws of meter. [1]
It is used in one poem of Statius (Silv. 4.5), imitating Horace, otherwise it does not appear to have been written by any major Latin poet. [51] The Alcaic stanza was often used by Horace for poems in the grand style, for example, the six Roman Odes (Odes 3.1–6), and the odes in praise of Drusus (4.4), Tiberius (4.14) and Augustus (4.15) in ...
Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) lived in the waning days of the Roman Republic, just before the Imperial era that began with Augustus.Catullus is the chief representative of a school of poets known as the poetae novi or neoteroi, both terms meaning "the new poets".
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century; Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China; Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat people
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus , the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature , are estimated to have been composed around 205–184 BC.
Book 3 has 14 poems focusing on Ovid's life in Tomis. The opening poem describes his book's arrival in Rome to find Ovid's works banned. Poems 10, 12, and 13 focus on the seasons spent in Tomis, 9 on the origins of the place, and 2, 3, and 11 his emotional distress and longing for home. The final poem is again an apology for his work.
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