HUM / REL 493 - Continuation of Intermediate Latin


Course Notes - Week 8

The photo on page 149, and on the cover of Wheelock's Latin, shows part of a 3rd. century AD mosaic from Sousse, now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, N. Africa.
The central figure is Vergil, in the process of composing the Aeneid. He holds a scroll with the words MUSA MIHI CAUSAS MEMORA QUO NUMINE LAESO QUIDVE . .
The figure at the left is Clio, Muse of History, with a scroll to represent Vergil's epic on the foundation and destiny of Rome.
At the right stands Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, holding a tragic mask and wearing actor's buskins (shoes and leggings), representing Vergil's sense of drama and human suffering.

The photo on page 158 is of an illustration in a mediaeval Flemish manuscript of Ovid's Metamorphoses

The photo on page 162 shows a detail from a 4th century mosaic floor at Low Ham Villa, Somerset (England). It shows Aenias and fellow-Trojans arriving at Carthage. The complete mosaic is shown on page 260.

The photo on page 163 shows an illustration in a 5th century manuscript of Vergil's Aeneid, now in the Vatican Museum.

Main Source : Cambridge Course Teachers' Materials

Poetic Terms

Anapest
A metric foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (duh-duh-DA), as in Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
Dactyl
A metric foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (DA-duh-duh). So called because the one long and two short reminded people of the bones of our fingers
Hexameter
A poetic line with six "feet". In English, Latin, and Greek poetry, it usually consists of dactyls and spondees for the first 4, then a dactyl, then a spondee :
eg. | DA-duh-duh | DA-duh-duh | DA-DA | DA-duh-duh | DA-duh-duh | DA-DA |
Iamb
A metric foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
eg. | duh-DA | duh-DA | duh-DA | duh-DA |
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled
Pyrrhic
A metric foot consisting of two short syllables (this is very rare)
Spondee
A metric foot consisting of two stressed syllables eg. | DA-DA |
Trochee
(pronounced TROE-KHEE) : A metric foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, eg. | DA-duh |
eg. The Song of Hiawatha :
Then the little Hiawatha learned of every beast the language

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