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| When was all apposition quashed? |
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| Who took over rule of Rome? |
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| What started after 100 years of civil war? |
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| What did this do for Rome? |
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| Funded an ambitious building program and supported the arts |
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| Virgil's monumental epic... |
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| was the most last document |
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| Why did Augustus want an epic? |
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| He wanted a legendary history of Rome as venerable (honorable) as that of their conquered peoples like the Greeks and Egyptians |
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| What did the Romans not have that the Greeks did? |
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| The Romans did not have a rich oral tradition like the Greeks did that generated the epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
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| What oral tradition did they have? |
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| Romulus and Rhemus-founding of Rome 750 BC |
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| When did the Trojan War occur? |
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| When was the Founding of Carthage? |
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| What is Virgil's life timeframe? |
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| When did Virgil write the Aeneid? |
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| Did Virgil think the Aeneid was done? |
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| No, but Augustus published it anyway |
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| What did Romans pride themselves on? |
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1. Loyalty to family and state
2. Self-denial and endurance
3. Ability to manage an operation well |
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| What did Augustus want Virgil to exemplify in his epic? |
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1. For Virgil to use the same meter as Homer
2. Situates story about the same time as the fall of Troy (1250 B.C.)
3. One of the plaves that Aeneas travels to is Carthage.
4. Invokes the muses
5. Begins in media res
6. Virgil recombines and transforms all the major works of the Greek and Roman tradition to make a new, original, and fundamentally Roman work
7. Creates a myth explaining Rome's founding/legitimizing Augustus empire
8. Establishes Rome's right to rule the world forever
9. Goal was to rival Homer and create a new era for Rome with superior values |
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| What is the definition of an epic poem? |
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1. Long, narrative poem
2. About the exploits of kings and heros
3. Through it we learn about the culture that produced it |
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| What is wrong with Aeneas traveling to Carthage? |
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| Anaphorism: Carnage was not founded until about 800 B.C. |
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| What are the differences between a folk epic and a literary epic? Give an example of each. |
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Folk epic: Took stories out of oral tradition and wrote them down into epic poetry (Iliad)
Literary epic: Deliverately wrote fictionalized stories into a national epic poem (Aeneid) |
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| What was the official language of the Roman empire and who spoke it? |
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| Latin; Government and Church |
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| What was the language of the people? |
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| What countries spoke the romance language? |
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| Portugal, Italy, Rome, France, and Spain |
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| When was the Iliad written? |
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| What nationality was the Iliad and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| When was the Aeneid written? |
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| What type of nationality was the Aeneid and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| When was Oedipus written? |
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| What type of nationality was Oedipus and what type of hero was depicted/ |
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| When was Julius Caesar written? |
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| What type of nationality was Julius Caesar and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| What do all the heros have in common? |
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