How the Young Man Should Study Latin Poetry: Neo-Latin Literature and Early Modern Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Sarah Knight
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Modern Education

Grammar in verse: Latin pedagogy in seventeenth-century England

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Moul
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Latin Verse

Latin was the medium as well as the main subject of all early modern education across Europe, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. This chapter examines the surprisingly widespread use of Latin verse (rather than prose) for pedagogical and memnonic purposes from the very earliest stages of education, focused on the role of Latin grammatical verse for the teaching of Latin, but discussing also the related phenomena of Latin verse grammars of Greek and Hebrew, and the reflections of this early educational experience in popular Latin poetry of the period. It argues that the use of grammatical Latin verse was both mnemonically effective and also served to establish from the earliest stages of education the moral and cultural authority and importance of Latin verse as a whole.

Neo-Latin Poetry, 1500–1700

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Moul
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Latin Verse ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses Latin poetry of the period 1500–1700, with a particular focus on the British Latin verse of this period, as well as authors from elsewhere who had an international reputation. Since the Latin literature of the Renaissance is conventionally considered to begin in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century with Petrarch, and the Italian Latin literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was strongly influential on the rest of Europe throughout the early modern period, this chapter also gives some account of key figures from that earlier period. The chapter discusses the various contexts for Latin verse composition in the period, the most significant forms and genres (including lyric, elegy, epigram, and epyllion), key British Latin authors (including Campion, Herbert, Milton, and Cowley), the relationship to English literature, modes of publication and the directions of future research.

scholarly journals Semiotics of Old Age in Polish Neo-Latin Poetry. Samboritanus, Cochanovius, Treter, Sarbievius, Ines

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elwira Buszewicz
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old Age ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Latin Poetry

The main aim of this paper is to analyze several early-modern Neo-Latin poems written by Polish authors; the poems deal (in different ways) with old age. The poets undertake a kind of intertextual game with the reader, applying various stereotypes and clichés. On can speak about a “semiotic landscape” of old age. The authors taken into consideration are Jan Kochanowski, Grzegorz of Sambor, Thomas Treter (16th century) and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Albert Ines (17th century).

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Daniel Jolowicz
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Multiple Parameters ◽  
Imperial Period

This Introduction contextualizes the question of imperial Greek engagement with Latin literature within scholarship on the period often labelled as the ‘Second Sophistic’. It establishes the multiple parameters of ‘Greek biculturality’ in order to soften the traditional dogma according to which Greeks would not read Latin (and certainly not Latin poetry) (Section 0.1). It addresses questions of Greek–Roman bilingualism (0.2), the evidence of Latin papyri (especially Vergil) in the context of education (0.3), and gathers together the scattered literary evidence for Greek awareness of Latin poetry (0.4). It then focuses on two contexts, the festival circuit and libraries, in which Greeks may have engaged with Latin poetry (0.5); the archaeology and epigraphy of cities such as Ephesus and Aphrodisias (cities also associated with the novelists) are called upon in establishing this picture. The following section (0.6) sets up the methodology governing allusion and intertextuality, phenomena that are integral to the argument of the book. The final section (0.7) sounds a note of caution about any attempt to draw homogenizing conclusions about ‘Greeks of the imperial period’, a group of great chronological and geographical diversity.

THE POETICS OF LATER GREEK ECPHRASIS: CHRISTODORUS COPTUS, THE PALATINE ANTHOLOGY AND THE PERIOCHAE OF NONNUS’ DIONYSIACA

Ramus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Middle Ages

There is increasing interest in what might be thought ‘special’ about late antique poetry. Two volumes of recent years have focused on Latin poetry of this time, Classics Renewed: Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity edited by Scott McGill and Joseph Pucci (2016) as well as The Poetics of Late Latin Literature edited by Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato (2017), while it has become increasingly acceptable to remark on late antiquity as a cultural period in its own right, rather than a point of transition between high antiquity and the middle ages. Greek poetry of late antiquity has yet to receive the level of attention offered to Latin literature of this time, and so it is to help answer the question of what may be thought special about late antique Greek poetry that I here discuss the poetics of later Greek ecphrasis.

scholarly journals Az archaikus költészet szerepe Ioachimus Vadianus költészetelméletében

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Orsolya Bobay
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Ancient Literature

The aim of my study is the analysis of the views on the archaic Latin literature in the early modern works based on the theory and practice of poetry, especially in the Swiss humanist’s, Joachim von Watt’s work (De poetica et carminis ratione). The concepts of poeta vates, poeta theologus, and poeta eruditus are commonly used by the Italian authors – who knew the most important authors of the early Roman literature regarding this period ‒ in order to emphasize the moralistic and social morals of the archaic poetry’s lecture. Some of the authors – for example Pietro Crinito ‒ following Suetonius emphasized the historical analysis of the ancient literature in a particular way. The innovation of Joachim von Watt’s work was the adaptation of this view of the Italian authors, and it is not present in the works of other Viennese humanists on poetry in the first half of the 16th century.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 326-330
Author(s):  
Daniel Jolowicz
Keyword(s):  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Achilles Tatius ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
System P ◽  
Literary System

The conclusion offers some final thoughts on the question pursued in this monograph, namely the Greek novelists’ engagement with Latin poetry, and what this means for how we model Graeco-Roman relations in the imperial period. It summarizes the findings of Chapters 1–7 and places them side by side in a way that clarifies how the different novelists approach the institution of Latin literature. At least for the three authors in question (Chariton, Achilles Tatius, Longus), the approach to Latin poetry is systematic rather than piecemeal. Allusion to Latin poetry is often playful, and occasionally ideological and potentially subversive (for example, Longus and the Aeneid). The conclusion also addresses the sociological problem of Greek imperial engagement with Latin literature: Greek literary men of the first two centuries CE were, it is suggested, habituated to practices that ensured the preservation of the Greek literary system as it stood. Failure to acknowledge the existence of a Latin poetic tradition in an overt manner served as one way of controlling the literary system.

The prehistory of Latin poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 332-350
Author(s):  
Nicholas Horsfall
Keyword(s):  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Systematic Examination

A systematic examination of the testimonia for the earliest forms of literature in Italy and to see whether certain basic anxieties about the sources might in the end lead to a clearer understanding of how Greeks and Romans had set about describing the prehistory of Latin literature. When Roman antiquaries and grammarians turned to Greek models to describe their own literary prehistory, that suggests not natural indolence or cultural subservience, but sources either hopelessly confused and intractable or altogether wanting.

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