TTC【双语字幕版】：西方文明的基础（S01E22：罗马的黄金和白银时代）
The reign of Augustus: the golden age, poets and poems
Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) 70-19 B.C.
- Aeneid (written 30-19 B.C.) by Virgil
- Georgics (37-30 B.C.)
- Eclogues (42-37 B.C.) (both of them were about countryside and rural areas)
Theme: the somber dignity of Rome's past
Dactylic Hexameter
- Hexameter: a six foot line
- Dactyl: a poetic foot which consists of one long and two short beats
- The fifth foot of a dactylic hexameter line is always a dactyl,
Aeneas carried his father on his back to flee the burning Troy.
Quote from The Aeneid, Book I, Line 33, meaning it was a big burden to found Rome and we did it.
Ovid, 43 B.C. - 18 A.D.; kind of playful as opposed to Virgil
- Amores, "The Loves" (ca. 20 B.C.)
- Ars Amatoria, "The art of Love" (1 B.C.)
- Metamorphoses (1 A.D.); an epic-scale encyclopedia of mythical mythology
Horace, 65-8 B.C.; sage, urbane and epicurean
Macaenas, Patron of Horace
Titus Livius (Livy) 59 B.C. - 17 A.D.; wrote prose to construct the past of Romans
The Silver Age (after Augustus): A time when history was written, bu also philosophy, rhetoric, and satire.
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus) ca. 55 - ca. 117 A.D.; an imperial historian, with cunning, discerning and trenchant judgement of individuals; Republican to his core, hated tyranny and tyrants
- De vita Julii Agricola, or "On Britain" (98 A.D.)
- De origine et situ Germanorum, or "On Germnay" (98 A.D.)
- Historiae, or "Histories" (109 A.D.)
- "Annals" (109 A.D.)
Suetonius ca. 70 - 140 A.D.
Lives of the Twelve Caesars (De Vita Caesarum) ca. 110 A.D. by Suetonius fi
Lucan 39-65 A.D., Spanish
Pharsalia (61 A.D.), verse account of the civil wars of the late Republican period
Senaca 4 B.C. - 65 A.D., the great popularizer of stoicism
Marcus Aurelius Ruled 161-180 A.D.; emperor and stoic philosopher
Meditations 167 A.D.
Quintilian ca. 35 - ca. 100 A.D.
Institutions of Oratory (Institutio Oratoria) ca. 110 A.D.; the standard manual of rhetorical art
Lucian ca. 125- ca. 200 A.D.; Syrian, wrote satires
Juvenal ca. 60 - ca. 136 A.D.; wrote trivia about the poor; excoriated people's despicable treatment of each other
Martial ca. 40 - 104 A.D.; wrote satirical epigrams
Architectural achievement, master in civil engineering
- Pont du Gard aqueduct
- Hadrian's Wall
- Pantheon
- Flavian amphitheater; Colosseum
