From 2.00pm until 5.00pm
At ONLINE ONLY
£35
Latin Love Elegy - ONLINE
Saturday 30th May 2020 2-5pm
Never before had a culture produced the kind of poetry seen in the early 1st century AD. Love Elegy was a new genre written by professional poets who were ‘militia amoris’ – fighting in love’s army. Love Elegy contains poems which explore the ecstasy of the agony of being in love with a woman of the ‘demi-monde’. Love elegists including Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid form the main focus of this seminar together with a look at the culture within which they produced this extraordinary style of writing. Participants will receive a list of the poems to be covered in advance of the seminar so that they can familiarise themselves with the texts.
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