Peter Green: Katul in njegov čas Green, Peter; Anžlovar, Ana; Bobovnik, Nena ...
Clotho (Ljubljana, Online),
09/2023, Letnik:
5, Številka:
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O Katulu vemo zelo malo zanesljivega in celo večino tega je treba razbrati iz njegovega lastnega literarnega dela. To je vedno tvegan pristop, ki mu kritika danes večinoma nasprotuje (četudi je ...kritika vedno spremenljiva in znaki teh sprememb so že v zraku). Toda po drugi strani vemo kar precej o zadnjem stoletju rimske republike, o času torej, v katerem je Katul preživel svoje kratko, a intenzivno življenje, in o številnih javnih osebnostih, tako iz sveta književnosti kot politike, ki jih je štel med svoje prijatelje ali sovražnike. Tako kot Byron, ki je bil Katulu v nekaterih pogledih podoben, se je gibal v krogih visoke družbe, imel je radikalna stališča, ne da bi se aktivno politično udejstvoval, ter je pisal poezijo, ki daje vtis, da je nastala kot odziv na družbeno dogajanje, literarne tokove ali zasebne škandale takratne aristokracije.
The paper analyses a selection of Propertius’ elegies in terms of their sense of ethnic identity. Starting with the two concluding elegies of the Monobiblos, which represent a break in the structure ...of the first book of elegies, the author presents the supposed associations of Propertius, familial and other, with the Etruscan people. This discussion is followed by an analysis of the Vertumnus elegy from Book 4: the myth of the Etruscan god of change is a paradigm for Propertius’ shifting allegiance to his original Umbrian homeland on the one hand, and – from a broader perspective – to the Roman Empire on the other.
KALISTO (2.401–495) Širne ograde neba vsemogočni oče obkroži; gleda, če sila ognjena morda jih je kje razmajala. Čim se prepriča, da čvrsto stoje in so trdne kot nekdaj, zemljo in mučno gorje ...človeštva s pogledom razišče.
Koledar, ki ga uporabljamo danes, izvira z nekaj popravki iz starega Rima, natančneje od Julija Cezarja. Najstarejši rimski koledar pa se je od julijanskega zelo razlikoval. Sestavljali so ga lunarni ...meseci, ki so malce krajši od solarnih, tako daje imelo leto 355 dni; razliko med 12 lunarnimi meseci in solarnim letom so skušali Rimljani premostiti z občasnim vstavljanjem dodatnega meseca, a to ni bila najboljša rešitev. Bile pa so še druge razlike.
This essay compares Dante’s literary invention of Statius as a covert Christian, and his interpretation of the Greek mythology of the Thebaid as a symptom of religious hypocrisy, with Bloomian ...approaches to Flavian epic, reading the Purgatory as an artistically powerful psychogram of ‘Silver’ Latin literature. As a dialectical alternative to that approach, the example of the unfinished Achilleid is used to question the value of political psychology as a tool of literary history.
The paper examines the aspects in which Ovid’s long didactic poem on the Roman calendar, Fasti, draws on the Greek traditions of aetiological calendar poetry and astronomy, in contrast to other, more ...original features. The latter include the large scale of the project, which sets to verse most days from January to June in chronological order, and the author’s evident ambition to compose a text which would function as a new type of national epic. Rather than emulate Virgil’s Aeneid in treating heroic (military) themes, traditionally associated with hexameter poetry, it would focus on the institutions which had come to the fore during Augustus’ peace and helped to shape the Roman sense of national identity. The result would be a national poem blurring genre boundaries: an elegiac epic. It is generally agreed that Ovid’s two most important Greek sources were the Aetia by Callimachus (for the aetiology of customs and festivals) and the Phaenomena by Aratus (for astronomy), but there are significant differences between the poets’ approaches. The comparison between Ovid and Callimachus raises a particularly interesting issue – that of the first-person narrator, who is present in the Fasti as well as in the Aetia. Of the two, Ovid’s narrator turns out to be more naive, less confident, and frequently bewildered by the possibilities of different explanations, which were in fact a typical feature of antiquarian Roman handbooks. The Greek model of a long poem on the causes of things – festivals, customs, constellations – is thus filled with Roman content, which is, moreover, accessed by a Roman (rather than Greek) approach. However, this Roman content is again interwoven with many Greek reminiscences – either at the level of tiny details or of whole plots and stories, as in the case of catasterisms. The Hellenic and the Roman elements thus merge into a single compact whole.
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