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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | LATNB350001 |
| Course Title | Topics in Latin Literature-Late Latin Poetry |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Classical Culture and Society |
| Instructor | Conybeare,Catherine |
| Times and Days | Th 01:10pm-04:00pm
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| Room Location | OL223 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2361 This is a topics course. Course content varies.; Current topic description: In this seminar we will explore the themes and aesthetics of the Latin epigram, a genre (or is it?) best known for its brevity and wit. After orienting ourselves in the epigrams of the Neoterics (Catullus, Cinna, Calvus, Caesar), our focus will turn to the poetry of Martial, whose accounts of Rome, its inhabitants, and their foibles exerted a profound influence on subsequent epigrammatists. We will consider Martial’s poetry both thematically (poems on the city; women; scoundrels; patrons; long poems) and as constituents of organized, multi-faceted libri. To deepen our appreciation of Martial’s poetic project, we will take occasional forays into para-epigrammatic genres and works (Priapea, Catalepton), as well as the scattered epigrams of authors both familiar (Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius) and obscure. We will also consider the evolution the epigram from its inscriptional and epitaphic origins in Greek and Latin, and its development as a literary form by Hellenistic authors. In the final two weeks of the course, we will turn our attention to the reception of Martial by late antique (Ausonius, Claudian, Luxorius) and Neo-Latin poets (e.g. Pontano’s Baiae, Panormita’s Hermaphroditus, Marullo’s reception of Catullus, Thomas More, John Owen). Readings in the original will be supplemented with relevant scholarship throughout. Students will enhance their core work on Latin epigram by reading—independently or in small-groups—a complementary genre or author in the original related to their interests (e.g. Greek epigram, Horace’ Satires, Latin elegy, carmina epigraphica, Juvenal, Flavian epic, Pliny’s Epistles, Christian epigram). Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) |
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