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Book Club: The Aeneid

 
  

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matthew.
17:14 / 20.04.05
I don't know about The Golden Ass being in The Temple. While it is big on the whole cult of Isis, and it is pretty nasty to (ancient) Christians, I still found it entertaining. There's something undeniably universal about Milesian Tales.

Speaking of comedy, maybe some Plautus? Even a couple plays by him... like the Menaechmi, or something. Of course, bringing up Plautus means some smartass is going to mention Terence. Let's just avoid discussion of Terence, shall we?

(Ooh, is this threadrot? I'm new here and still confused on the application of threadrot)

By the way, I did really good on my exam on the history of Latin Literature. So, if we do the Aeneid, I have all my notes written in the book already. We used the Penguin Classics translation (can't remember his name...)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:55 / 20.04.05
David West, I think.

On threadrot - essentially, this is the "Book Club" thread - it's a metathread in which the discussion of a book is discussed. I linked to the thread in which the Aeneid was being discussed in the last post of page 1. So, no, not threadrot - perfectly useful and interesting suggestions about what might be of insterest.

_However_, you may wish to bear in mind that some people here do not havce your grounding in the history of Latin Literature (what kind of course is that, btw? American liberal arts degree thing?), so just putting names out there might be a bit confusing.

So, how about, if we don't want to do a long work, a set of comparative readings of short works produced in a similar genre and comprehensible time - say Catullus, Propertius, Ovid for three different treatments of elegy?
 
 
matthew.
21:36 / 20.04.05
You're right. My post seems utterly pompous.

I hope you're not making fun of my American liberal arts degree thing. If you are being malicious, I am working towards a PhD in English, specifically Vladimir Nabokov, and I'm Canadian.... If you aren't being malicious, yeah, it's one of those things.

You wrote:
a set of comparative readings of short works produced in a similar genre and comprehensible time - say Catullus, Propertius, Ovid for three different treatments of elegy?
I love your suggestion. Love it. Let's all do that. I'm not familiar at all with Propertius, but I do know quite a bit about Catullus.... The best part about Catullus is that for a modern short-attention span type audience (not that I'm saying everybody here has a short attention span, I'm merely making an observation of our culture as a whole), Catullus' poems are short and snappy. One does not need a whole history lesson to appreciate him. It's just good moderately clean fun.
 
 
sleazenation
17:49 / 21.04.05
So, The Aeneid?
 
 
HCE
18:01 / 21.04.05
Just a quick note for the person who mentioned reading the Iliad, and anyone else who missed out on the earlier Barbelith reading of it -- I will be going over it with a friend starting next week. Anybody who'd care to participate by correspondence, please PM me.

Thanks.
 
  

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