CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 28450)

CC 347: The Cultural History of Rome (Unique # 28560)

October 3: Love and Death: Catullus and Lucretius

I. Lingua Latina:
alea iacta est
veni, vidi, vici
et tu, Brute?

Catullus, Poem 85
odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
nihil igitur mors est

II. Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE)
A. Lesbia: poems 51, 5, 8, 85
B. Iuventius: poem 48
C. Friends and Family: poems 9, 100, 101
D. Invective: poems 39, 84

III. Lucretius (c. 95-55 BCE) and Roman philosophy
A. Background: Greek philosophy
B. Hellenistic Philosophy

1. Stoicism
2. Epicureanism

C. Lucretius on death 

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