3. LAT 51: Lucretia I – sympotic behavior & Latian princely culture
I. recap N+ADJ
1. write out full ADJ (2-1-2; 2-1-2ius; 3rd; hichaechoc)
a. parvus – totus – fortis - hic
II. GRAMMAR: Pronouns
1. Personal (ego-tu-is-ea-id)
2. Demonstrative
3. Relative
4. Reflexive
III. VOCABULARY
IV. Latin Intro: War at Ardea
Legimus fabulam de Roma antiqua
In hac fabula videmus paucos viros nobiles
Hi Sunt primores et utuntur otio (in castris) (omnes alii sunt solum milites; hi sunt duces et primores)
In prima parte huius fabulae videmus hos viros
Hi viri sedent circum tabulam
vinum bibunt
fabulas narrant de factis magnis suis
exempli gratia:
“Mea uxor est pulcherrima et
loquuntur de uxoribus
loquuntur de virtute/castitate/ uxorum
Quisque laudat ingenium uxoris suae
Fit certamen magnum et ferox inter viros:
Quis est femina castissima?
Quis est uxor fidelissima?
Quis est optima omnium?
Collatinus dicit sic:
“Mea uxor, Lucretia est castissima, fidelissima et optima omnium feminarum”
Tandem omnes viri conscendunt equos
et sine mora eunt Romam....ut uxorem Collatini spectent
Quid vident Romae apud Lucretiam?
Quaestiones: who-what-when-where-how-why
Ubi sunt hi viri? in castris – in urbe – domi
Quid faciunt?
Qualis femina est Lucretia
3. GRK 111: Articles & Agreements
3. CLAS 21: The Mycenaeans
* Minoans Recap & Omissions
1. Centralized Palaces
a. Economic centers (storage, distribution, recording of agricultural prod.)
b. Artistic & Artisanal production
c. Ritual Center (connection to „Peak-top‟ & Cave Sanctuaries)
2. Religion & Iconography
a. figurines – problems of identification
b. Double axes
c. Bulls & Bull horns
3. 2 Catastrophes in Crete
1. c. 1700 Protopalaces destroyed (Neo Palaces w/Knossus as leader)
2. c. 1500 – Thera Eruption > begins permanent decline of Minoan civ.
I. Late Bronze Age in Mainland Greece (i.e.‟Mycenaean)
1. Centers of Power springing up (Major fortified citadels OR palaces)
a. Peloponnesus (Mycenae – Tiryns – Pylos) – not Sparta!
b. Attica (Athens)
c. Boeotia (Thebes – Gla – Orchomenos
d. Thessaly (Iolkos – Petra)
I. Mycenaean Arrival & Aegean Domination
1. Crete
a. Post-Thera destruction (1500) > Mycenaean arrival
b. Mycenaeans dominate (1400)
1. Knossos palace destroyed
2. Islands
a. Mycenaean wares (pottery, etc) replace Minoan wares
Similarities & Differences
2. Origins & INDO-EUR origins
3. Prosperity
a. result of contact with Minoan world & Mediterranean trade
b. EVIDENCE
1. Rich goods in 2 Shaft Grave circles
2. Tholos-tombs (monumental)
II. Mycenaean Culture
1. Language & Writing: Linear B
1. Pylos tablets
2. Knossos tablets
2. Religion
1. clearly polytheistic (Linear B tablets)
2. Olympian, anthropomorphic gods
1. Poseidon-cult at Pylos (important Homeric confirmation)
2. Zeus Dictaeos at Mycenaean Knossos
3. Male divinities prominent (contra Minoan females)
4. Cult titles
1. Goddesses (Potnia „Mistress‟ & Wanassa „Lady‟)
2. Gods („Wanax‟)
5. Worshippers called „slave of Zeus‟ (esp. in Pylos)
6. Cult Site (PAKIJANE at Pylos)
1. Economically very strong
3. Militarism, Weaponry & Civil War
1.
2.
4. Craft & Trade
1. Gold
5. Agriculture
1. contrast with Cretan palaces
III. Mycenaean Centers: Mycenae
Chronology: Mycenaean Culture
1575-1450 Early Mycenaean wealthy ruling groups in South (indigenous)
**M‟s as foreign invaders disproven by pottery
1450-1200 Palace period**
1200-1050/1000 Late Mycenaean
OCD „religion, Minoan & Mycenaean‟
Minoans Mycenaean
Centralization unfortified Palace centers strongly fortified Citadels
Palaces large central court megaron style
Religion ritual cave & peak sanctuaries early Minoan imagery & fusion?
lustral basin open-air sanctuaries
Symbols Polytheistic**
2x axes anthropomorphic deities
horns of consecration Warrior-god (oriental style)
clay tubes (snakes) Male deities** (linear B)
small iconic figurines Zeus
praying (at epiphany) Poseidon
snake goddess/priestess Enyalius (& Ares)=double
tree (dancing around) Dionysus
Divinity (?) – Females** Hermes
question of poly/monotheis Paean (Apollo)
Females (Athena-Artemis-Hera
titles: „potnia‟ (Mistress; Lady)
„wanassa (Lady/Queen)
„wanax‟ (Lord/King)
**Poseidon prominent at Pylos
as Hom. Od.3
**Zeus Dictaeus at Knossos
- divine child of Psychro cave
Destructions 1700: proto > new palaces
1500: Thera erupt > decline
destruction of palaces
Knossos destroyed later
Graves #‟s highly wrought weapons of war
1f 2m 3m 3f
puella,-ae puer,pueri pater, patris mater, matris
filia,-ae filius,filii frater, fratris soror, sororis
femina,-ae vir, viri infans,infantis mulier,
maritus,mariti iuvenis,iuvenis mulieris
avus,avi adulescens,aduluscentis uxor, uxoris
liberi,liberorum* senex,senis coniunx,
nepos,nepotis coniugis
virgo, virginis
regina,-ae amicus,amici comes,comitis
ancilla,-ae servus,servi hospes,hospitis
nuntius,nuntii miles,militis
socius,socii rex, regis
dux,ducis
hostis,hostis
Adjectives
size, quantity, # moral: positive & Demonstrative ‘-ius’-Type
negative
magnus,a,um bonus,a,um is,ea,id ullus,a,um
parvus,a,um castus,a,um idem,eadem,idem nullus,a,um
longus,a,um pudicus,a,um hic,haec,hoc unus,a,um
brevis,e (3) fidelis,-e (3) ille,illa,illud solus,a,um
multus,a,um atrox (atrocis) (3) iste,ista,istud
multi,ae,a ipse,ipsa,ipsum neuter,tra,trum
pauci,ae,a negative alius,a,ud
unus,a,um* malus,a,um uter,tra,trum
sceleratus,a,um totus,a,um
omnis,-e sordidus,a,um alter,tera,terum
primus,a,um
totus,a,um*
nullus,a,um*
ullus,a,um*