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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | CSTSB635001 |
Course Title | Alexandrian Trad/Roman Poetry |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Studies |
Instructor | Baertschi,Annette M. |
Times and Days | W 02:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | CH223 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1699 The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to the Greek poetry of the last three centuries BCE, most notably that of Callimachus and Theocritus, and its reception and transformation in Rome in the late Republic and early imperial era. We will be reading a wide range of sources, both in Greek and Latin, including – next to the aforementioned - authors such as Moschus, Parthenius, Catullus, Vergil, and Statius. In addition, we will discuss past and present scholarship devoted to individual texts and the relationship between the Hellenistic poets and their Roman successors in general. Specifically, we will examine the complex Roman engagement with Greek literary and intellectual culture, the construction of poetic affiliations and literary genealogies, the adoption of particular poetic modes and practices, and the re-appropriation of Greek bucolic in Latin pastoral. |
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