http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/08/Seneca-Hercules-Furens-podcast-2.mp3 Juno has just finished her opening monologue in which she whips herself into a frenzy of rage at Hercules. As the chorus enters, they sing of the dawn, then deliver an encomium of the simple country life, away from the ambition, greed, and corruption of city life. (Seneca apparently knew little of country life, which can be just as full of ambition, greed, and corruption as city life. But the senti...
Aug 05, 2020•31 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/08/Seneca-Hercules-Furens-podcast-1_1-29.mp3 “Hercules Furens,” adapted, directed, and choreographed by John Farmanesh-Bocca. The Miles Memorial Playhouse, 2013. Photo by Anthony Roldan Hercules is known for his monumental strength and immense fortitude, today this Greek hero himself would be dwarfed by the strength and durability of Metal Roofing , a trend that will make you feel protected by the Greek gods themselves. A Beautiful Weddi...
Aug 02, 2020•15 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-4.mp3 Despite my royal status and lineage, I am begging you. Spare me, please. May you get everything you want as a huntsman. tolle morās tantum properātaque foedera iunge — quī mihi nunc saevit, sīc tibi parcat Amor! nōn ego dēdignor supplex humilisque precārī. 150 heu! ubi nunc fastūs altaque verba iacent? et pugnāre diū nec mē submittere culpae certa fuī — certī sīquid habēret amor; vīcta precor genibusque t...
Jul 15, 2020•17 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-3.mp3 Phaedra asks Hippolytus to put off his huntsman’s persona and relax, then offers to come out on the hunt with him. She offers to abandon Theseus and move to Troezen to be with Hippolytus. Theseus is already ignoring and slighting both of them, she argues. Their close family connection is no problem, even an asset. The affair will be easily concealed because of it. aequora bīna suīs oppugnant flūctibus Ist...
Jul 08, 2020•24 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-2.mp3 Phaedra wants to take up hunting like Hippolytus and is driven to the extremes of mental derangement. Perhaps it is some family curse that the women of her Cretan line all suffer in love (Europa, Pasiphae, Ariadne)? Phaedra describes how attractive she found Hippolytus when she first saw him at Eleusis. See Peter J. Davis, “Rewriting Euripides: Ovid, Heriodes 4,” Scholia 4 (1995) 41-55. https://www.academ...
Jul 06, 2020•26 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-1.mp3 Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Racine’s Phèdre (Getty Museum) Quā, nisi tū dederis, caritūra est ipsa, salūtem mittit Amāzoniō Cressa puella virō. perlege, quodcumque est: quid epistula lēcta nocēbit? tē quoque in hāc aliquid quod iuvet esse potest; hīs arcāna notīs terrā pelagōque feruntur. 5 īnspicit acceptās hostis ab hoste notās. ter tēcum cōnāta loquī ter inūtilis haesit lingua, ter in prīmō restitit...
Jul 02, 2020•24 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-3-podcast-1.mp3 There are still a couple of days left to sign up to join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online workshop reading Ovid’s Heroides , July 15-20, 2020: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2020/05/03/2020-ovid-heroides-online-workshop-announcement/ Deadline to register is July 1, 2020. Quam legis, ā raptā Brīsēide littera vēnit, vix bene barbaricā Graeca notāta manū. quāscumque adspiciēs, lacrimae fēcē...
Jun 27, 2020•24 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-2-podcast-2.mp3 Join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online workshop reading Ovid’s Heroides , July 15-20, 2020: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2020/05/03/2020-ovid-heroides-online-workshop-announcement/ crēdidimus blandīs, quōrum tibi cōpia, verbīs; crēdidimus generī nōminibusque tuīs; 50 crēdidimus lacrimīs—an et hae simulāre docentur? hae quoque habent artēs, quāque iubentur, eunt? dīs quoque crēdidimus. q...
Jun 20, 2020•33 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-2-podcast-1.mp3 Woodcut from the Italian translation of the Heroides published by Sixtus Riessinger (Naples, 1474) Hospita, Dēmophoōn, tua tē Rhodopēia Phyllis ultrā prōmissum tempus abesse queror. cornua cum lūnae plēnō semel orbe coīssent, lītoribus nostrīs ancora pacta tua est— lūna quater latuit, tōtō quater orbe recrēvit; 5 nec vehit Actaeās Sīthonis unda ratēs. tempora sī numerēs—bene quae numerāmus amantēs— nōn ve...
Jun 14, 2020•34 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-3.mp3 This is the third and last episode on Heroides 1. If you love Ovid’s Heroides , consider joining Chun Liu (Professor of Comparative Literature at Peking University) and me at the Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop (online this year), July 15-20, 2020. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2019/11/06/dickinson-summer-latin-workshop-ovid-heroides/ Penelope imagines that Odysseus, who has the same desires as most men,...
Jun 03, 2020•19 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/05/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-2.mp3 If you love Ovid’s Heroides , consider joining Chun Liu (Professor of Comparative Literature at Peking University) and me at the Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop (online this year), July 15-20, 2020. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2019/11/06/dickinson-summer-latin-workshop-ovid-heroides/ Omnia namque tuō senior tē quaerere missō rettulerat nātō Nestor, at ille mihi. rettulit et ferrō Rhēsumque Dolōnaque ca...
May 26, 2020•15 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/05/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-1.mp3 Penelope (ca. 1868) by Charles-François Marchal. Penelope is not represented as the legendary wife of Odysseus but as a contemporary woman, dutifully engaged in needlework as she dreams about her husband, portrayed in the miniature before her. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Here begins what I plan to be a series on Ovid’s Heroides , in preparation for an open online seminar on the Heroides with Chun Liu o...
May 23, 2020•14 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/04/Boethius-Consol.-Phil.-1.4-Quiquis-composito.mp3 Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius. Coëtivy Master (French, active about 1450 – 1485). Source: Getty Museum Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius rose to high honors under Theodoric the Ostrogoth (ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493–526), but fell from favor, was tried for treason, wrongly condemned and imprisoned at Ticinum (Pavia). Sente...
Apr 30, 2020•18 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/04/tigers.mp3 Ovid on the Metamorphoses compares Hecuba to a lioness, not a tigress, but as I discuss based on Pliny and Valerius Flaccus, the two animals were grouped together in the Roman mind under the heading of savage mothers who get cubs stolen by raptores . For the best Safeguard your things go through this once. In honor of the Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness I though I would do an episode on tigers in...
Apr 01, 2020•12 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/12/Catullus-and-Martial-on-unguents.mp3 Catullus 13 (text: G.P. Goold, 1983, via PHI) Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus, si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam, non sine candida puella et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis. 5 haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster, cenabis bene: nam tui Catulli plenus sacculus est aranearum. sed contra accipies meros amores seu quid suavius elegantiusvest: 10 nam...
Dec 02, 2019•17 min
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Nov 24, 2019•16 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Needham_Distribuens-Petasus.mp3 J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) has a delightful Latin version, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (2003), by Peter Needham. Needham taught Classics at Eton for over thirty years and also translated A Bear Called Paddington into Latin. In this edition of Latin Poetry Podcast we check out his elegant version of the Sorting Hat Song . The meter is the elegiac couplet . disci...
Nov 17, 2019•10 min
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Ysengimus-1.269-288.mp3 Ysengrimus is a Latin mock epic, an anthropomorphic series of fables written in 1148 or 1149 in Latin elegiac couplets. Its chief character is Isengrin the Wolf; the plot describes how the trickster figure Reynard the Fox overcomes Isengrin’s various schemes. This week’s Latin Poetry Podcast is a excerpt in which Isengin and Reynard collaborate to bamboozle a peasant and steal his bacon. The translation is by A...
Nov 11, 2019•11 min
Unidentified man with mule carrying baskets of food. Italy, 1870s. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Claudian-De-mulabus.mp3 Claudian (ca. 370-ca.404 AD) is best known for his political poetry (he was associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Milan). But his miscellaneous carmina minora include a fascinating variety of shorter poems, such as a description of a marble chariot (CM 7), a sepulchral epigram on a beautiful woma...
Nov 04, 2019•16 min
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Sep 25, 2012•5 min
This is the second in a series dealing with Horace’s lyric meters. The previous installment covered Asclepiadeans. This one discusses the Sapphic stanza, so named because of its association with Sappho , the famous Greek lyric poet. Odes 1.2 is summarized as follows by Nisbet and Hubbard: God has sent enough ill-omened weather. We begin to be afraid that the age of the Flood might return. We have seen the avenging Tiber make for the temple of Vesta; our descendants will hear that we fought each ...
Jan 24, 2012
Herewith a re-do of a poem I have done on an earlier podcast , this time with special attention to the meter. It is part of a series on Horace’s lyric meters. This installment focuses on a meter that scholars call variously Asclepiads , asclepiadeans, the First Asclepiad, and the Lesser Asclepiad. The name is given by ancient grammarians, and evidently derives from a certain Greek poet named Asclepiades, though which one and why are unclear . I generally hate the cryptic way textbooks and schola...
Jan 20, 2012
Phaedrus Fables 1.18 Nemo libenter recolit qui laesit locum. Instante partu mulier actis mensibus humi iacebat flebilis gemitus ciens. Vir est hortatus, corpus lecto reciperet, onus naturae melius quo deponeret. “Minime”, inquit, “illo posse confido loco malum finiri, quo conceptum est initio.” Phaedrus, Fables 1.18. Text: Giannina Solimano, ed. Fedro: Favole (n.p.: Garzanti, 1996) Francesco Furini (1600-1646), Rachel Giving Birth to Joseph...
Sep 22, 2011
“De mutata Romae fortuna,” incerti auctoris, ed. N. E. Lemaire, Poetae Latini Minores vol. 4 (Paris, 1825), pp. 537-538. Romulus Augustulus Deposed De mutata Romae fortuna Nobilibus quondam fueras cōnstructa patrōnīs subdita nunc servis, heu, male Roma tuis. Deseruere tui tanto te tempore reges; cessit et ad Graecos nomen honosque tuus. Cōnstantīnopolis florens, nova Roma vocatur, 5 moribus et muris Roma vetusta cadis. Transiit imperium, mansitque superbia tecum; cultus avaritiae te nimium super...
Jul 22, 2011
The Wrath of Iarbas protinus ad regem cursus detorquet Iarban incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras. Hic Hammone satus rapta Garamantide nympha templa Iovi centum latis immania regnis, centum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem, 200 excubias diuum aeternas, pecudumque cruore pingue solum et variis florentia limina sertis. isque amens animi et rumore accensus amaro dicitur ante aras media inter numina divum multa Iovem manibus supplex orasse supinis: 205 ‘Iuppiter omnipotens, cui nunc ...
Jun 12, 2011
Translating Vergil Aeneid 1.305-309 At pius Aeneas, per noctem plurima volvens, ut primum lux alma data est, exire locosque explorare novos, quas vento accesserit oras, qui teneant, nam inculta videt, hominesne feraene, quaerere constituit, sociisque exacta referre. Fitzgerald : But the dedicated man, Aeneas, thoughtful through the restless night, Made up his mind, as kindly daylight came, To go out and explore the strange new places, To learn what coast the wind had brought him to And who were ...
Mar 24, 2011
O Socii ‘O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem. Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis 200 accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopea saxa experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum tendimus in Latium; sedes ubi fata quietas 205 ostendunt; illic fas regna resurgere Troiae. Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.’ Talia voce refert, curisque ingentibus ...
Mar 15, 2011
Juvenal Sat. 1.1-21 Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam uexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi? inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas, hic elegos? inpune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes? nota magis nulli domus est sua quam mihi lucus Martis et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrum Vulcani; quid agant venti, quas torqueat umbras Aeacus, unde alius furtivae devehat aurum pelliculae, quantas iaculetur Monychus ornos...
Nov 30, 2010
Chief of Monsters Monstrorum princeps, Elephans proboscide saevus horret mole nigra, dente micat niveo. sed vario fugienda malo cum belua gliscat, est tamen excepti mors pretiosa feri. nam quae conspicimus montani roboris ossa humanis veniunt usibus apta satis. consulibus sceptrum, mensis decus, arma tablistis, discolor et tabulae calculus inde datur. haec est humanae semper mutatio sortis: fit moriens ludus, qui fuit ante pavor. Anth. Lat. 187 (D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Anthologia Latina [Stuttga...
Oct 06, 2010
In honor of Spain’s recent world cup victory, here’s a bit of Claudian on the glories of Spain (Hispania to the Romans): Claudian Laus Serenae Quid dignum memorare tuis, Hispania, terris vox humana valet? primo levat aequore solem India: tu fessos exacta luce iugales proluis inque tuo respirant sidera fluctu. dives equis, frugum facilis, pretiosa metallis, principibus fecunda piis, tibi saecula debent 55 Traianum; series his fontibus Aelia fluxit. hinc senior pater, hinc iuvenum diademata fratru...
Jul 30, 2010
