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LITERATURE
An Introduction
Roman Literature
• Holds a secondary
position in classic
literature
• Romans were less
thinkers and less
imaginative
Roman Literature
• Greatly imitative of Gk
models
• Gk Literature was
translated into Latin
Roman Literature
Zeus Jupiter
Hera Juno
Hades Pluto
Apollo Apollo
Artemis Diana
Ares Mars
Roman Literature
Hestia Vesta
Poseidon Neptune
Athena Minerva
Aphrodite Venus
Hephaestus Vulcan
Hermes Mercury
Roman Literature
• Predominance of satire:
purpose was to attack
the evils in society
Roman Literature
• Uses deus ex machina
(god out of a machine)
term applied to any
artificial trick or
unexpected intervention
• Made little progress in
literature until the
enslavement of
Greeks.
ROME
• Capital: Italy
• With 2.8M residents
• Referred to as “Eternal
City”
VIRGIL
• Greatest writer that
Rome has produced
• Counterpart of Homer
in Gk.
• A lover of nature
THE FOUNDING OF ROME
• One of the founding myths
was that of Aeneas.
• Cousin of Hector, believed to
be the son of Venus
THE FOUNDING OF ROME