CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

October 19: Horace

I: Lingua Latina

• Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

1. Festina lente (a favorite motto of Augustus)
   
2. O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
   
3. Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
   

• From Livy's Ab urbe condita

1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
   
2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

• From the Aeneid

1. arma virumque cano
   
2. sunt lacrimae rerum
   
3. timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
   
4. tu... Romane... memento...
   parcere subjectis et debellare superbos
   

• From Horace

1. carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
   
2. nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
   
3. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)
   

I. Brief discussion of Exam I, with suggestions

II. Horace

A. Horace's Life

B. Satires

• Satire at Rome
• Satire 1.9: "The Bore"
• Satire 1.9 and the topography of Augustan Rome

C. Lyric (Odes)

A. Background: Catullus

1. Lesbia: poems 51, 5, 8, 85
2. Iuventius: poem 48
3. Friends and Family: poems 9, 100, 101
4. Invective: poems 39, 84

B. Horace's Odes

1. Love: 1.5
2. carpe diem: 1.11
3. Politics and morality: 1.37, 3.1

Images to accompany discussion

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