CC 302: Introduction to Ancient
Rome (Unique # 30270)
September 14: Terence, The
Brothers
I: Lingua Latina
- Salvete, Salve
- Quid agitis?, Quid agis?
optime, bene, satis bene, male
- Romam a principio reges
habuerunt (Tacitus)
- vae victis (Livy)
- Moribus antiquis res stat
Romana virisque (Ennius)
- Carthago delenda est (Cato the
Elder)
- prandi, potavi, scortum
accubui (Plautus)
- Homo sum: humani nil a me
alienum puto (Terence)
21 Catullus, Selected Poems in Course Packet, and poem 63,
online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0006:poem=63:line=1
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book 4, verses
1037-1287, online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0131&layout=&loc=4.1057
23 Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline (in course
packet)
III.
Terence, The Brothers
A. The playwright: Publius
Terentius Afer, c. 190-159 BCE
B. The play
- In performance by The Terence
Project of Vassar College
(UG Audiovisual library, VIDCASS 10,434)
- How is this play like and
unlike Plautus' Double Bind?
- Demea and Micio have opposite
views about education. Who do you think is right? Who would a
Roman of Terence' s day think is right?
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