Annual EUROCLASSICA Conference Reception and Spread of the Classical Culture in Lithuania and the Baltic Region

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Annual EUROCLASSICA ConferenceReception and
Spread of the Classical Culture in Lithuania and
the Baltic Region

• Vilnius, August 31 September 2, 2012

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Jadranka Bagaric, Croatia

• Roman Lyricists in a Latin class

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The art of teaching

• If our duty was to satisfy only the curiosity and
  the thirst for knowledge of those who are
  genuinely interested, our job would be too easy.

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The main challenge

• to motivate those who are not initially
  interested
• to activate them
• to provoke their curiosity
• to make them ask questions
• to make them respond
• to make them take part in this adventurous
  journey, which will enrich their soul and their
  ability to express themselves in any language.

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What should one do in order to keep their
attention focused on the subject?

• Just about anything!

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Exploring the internet....

• A curiosity on the Croatian blog of
• Children of flowers

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• Make Love, Not War!!!
• One of the greatest Roman elegic poets, his
  name is Albius Tibullus .... here are some of his
  poems......

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Evergreens

• And I Love Her
• The Beatles
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v96YQdiMV-Jc

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Always on my mind

• Elvis Presley
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vBirclTYVh74

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Besame mucho

• Cesaria Evora
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vIiu7-BGBV2A
• Andrea Bocelli http//www.youtube.com/watch?v83ln
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• Sanjaya Malakar on American idol
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• Catullus, more often then Virgil and Ovid, use
• the versus spondiacus
• Aéquoreaé monstrúm Neréides ádmirántes
• Catullus use the same elegiac couplets as
• Ovid.
• His iambic trimeter appears in pure forme of
• twelwe syllables
• Phasélus ille quém vidétis hóspités

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• Choliamb ( versus Hipponacteus), is iambic
  trimeter as well, but in his last rate instead of
  iambic stands trochee or spondee. In this
  situation we have two accentuated rates which in
  the recitation gives comic-ironic effect.
•  Misér Catúlle, désinás inéptíre

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• Phalecean hendecasyllable (hendecasyllabus or
  versus Phalaeceus),verse of eleven syllables
• Vívamús, mea Lésbi(a), átqu(e) amémus
•  In the first rate instead of trochee can be
  iamb, with the changing of rhythm 
• Meás éss(e) aliquíd putáre núgas
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• Sapphic strophe (named after the famour Greek
  poet Sappho) consists of three hendecasyllabs and
  one Sapphic adonee. Her schema is constant
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• Ílle mí par ésse deó vidétur,
• ílle, si fas ést, superáre dívos,
• quí sedéns advérsus idéntidém te
• spéctat et aúdit.

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• Glyconic strophe has three glyconees and one
  ferecrateus at the end
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• Tú Lucína doléntibús
• Iúno dícta puérperís,
• tú poténs Trivi(a) ét nothó (e)s
• dícta lúmine Lúna.
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Gaius Valerius Catullus, Between Passion and
Hate

• Poem 5 Love is Life
• Poem 87 The Eternal Love
• Poem 51 Lesbias Magical Power
• Poem 7 Never Enough of Kisses
• Poem 109 Lesbias Promise
• Poem 2 Lesbia's Sparrow
• Poem 3 Sparrow's Death
• Poem 8 The End of Love

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Albius Tibullus and Sextus PropertiusPrisoners
of Love

• Tibullus
• Elegiae, I, 10 -The Blame of War
• eulogy of peace
• Elegiae, III, 8 - Sulpicia's Beauty
• Elegiae III, 19 - Slave of Your Love

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• Propertius
• Elegiae, I, 1 - First love
• Elegiae, I, 2 - To Cynthias Beauty
• Elegiae, III, 24 - Abandoned and Desperate
• the poet seeks calm

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Publius Ovid Naso The Exiled Poet

• I,3
• Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago,
• qua mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuit,
• cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui,
• labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis.

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A students response

• Retine lacrimas, longa coram te via nunc stat,
• miseriam ibi maximam tu cognosces!
• Scito sine aliquo bono venire nullum malum posse
  
• ut post nubila ordine venit Phoebus,
• omnium maxima, tunc gloria crescet tua,
• totus mundus sciet Naso non frustra fert.

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Epistulae ex PontoLetter to Gracinus

• Crede mihi, nostrum si non mortale futurum est
• carmen, on ore frequens posteritatis eris
• Fac modo permaneas lasso, Graecine, fidelis,
• duret et in longas impetus iste moras.
• Quae tu cum praestes, remo tamen utor in aura,
• nec nocet admisso subdre calcar equo.

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A students response

• Frustra hae tibi sunt preces miserrime Naso!
• In incerta amicus re cernitur, Cicero scit.

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Croatian Latinists

• Croatian latinity is a full-fledged integral part
  of Croatian literature.
• Croatian Latinity also belongs to the European
  literary community whose medium of expression was
  Latin.

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Rogerius Josephus BoskovichDe Cartesianis
vorticibus et attractionibus Newtonianis

• Hinc hominum genus, hinc nitido circumdata Soli
• Aspice per superas Astra rotata plagas.
• Si tibi conferto persuasit in Orbe Renatus
• Circumagi implexis sydera vorticibus,
• Agnosces caeca abreptas vortigine mentes
• Fortunaeque vides inexorabilemque rotam.
• Si duce Newtono credis per inane recurvas
• Attracta arcano foedere obire vias
• Corda virum Ambitio, disces quis nexibus, Aurum
• Corda senum, iuvenem corda Cupido trahat.
• Usque adeo ipse hominum mores atque aspera fata
• Rerum Opifex rutilis sculpsit in axe notis.

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In planetarum dispositione Terra inter Martem et
Venerem

• Aspicis, ut rapidos amor excitet, Iraque, motus,
• Partiti humani pectoris imperium?
• Hic gemit ah durae fraudatus amore puellae
• Ille hostem insequitur torvus, et arma quatit.
• Miraris? Cerne auricomum quonam ordine solem
• Disposata in gyrum sydera circumeant.
• Mercurius propior Phoebo Venus axe recedit
• Altior hinc Veneri proxima Terra subit.
• Tellurem vasto Mars orbe amplectitur illum
• Iuppiter hunc pigri plumbea stella patris.
• Quos Venerem, Martemque inter natura locavit
• His mirum, si Mars imperet atque Venus?

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Raymundus Cunichius

• De Homeri Illyade
• Caetera privatis vatum scripta Ilias una,
• Rex Macedo ut dixit, regibus apta legi.
• In scriptorum Graecorum ac Latinorum contemptorem
• Qui Grajos spernis scriptores atque Latinos,
• Quid Rerum scribas quaerere, Cinna, piget.
• Scire sat est, quaeque scribas, gravitate Latina
• Scilicet ac Grajo cuncta carere sale.
• Simulacro Ciceronis subscriptum
• Salve, urbis decus aeternae, salve, optime Tulli,
• Salve, o magnorum maxime Romulidum,
• Eloquii princeps, quo sub duce Roma Pelasgos
• Vicit, quod armis vicerat, ingenio!

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The Innocent Love

• Ad Lydam
• No nego te stulte modo visam captus amavi,
• Propter te mores nec placuere tui
• Tu proptermores cepisti, Lyda, placere,
• Queis nihil est unquam suavius et melius.
• Hi tibi fac maneant semper meus usque manebit
• Idem amor, extremos integer ad cineres.
• De Lydae in Summis laudibus modestia
• Lyda potest omnes, quotquot sunt, ore puellas,
• Lyda potest omnes vincere mente viros.
• Sponte sua gaudet sed cedere Lyda puellis,
• Sponte sua gaudet cedere Lyda viris.
• Ergo illam, quoties vicit, victaeque puellae
• Et victi certant semper amare viri.

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• De Lydae in virtute constantia
• Qualis Lyda die primo est mihi cognita, mutas
• Talem post messes atque hyemes video.
• Foemina, quod rebar fieri vix posse, virorum
• Nullum constanti non animo aequparat.
• Ingenio et stabili mire omnes una refutat,
• Queis leve foemineum dicitur esse genus.
• Catullum vel pecantem amat
• Quaeris, cur blandi culpetur Musa Catulli.
• Non me, verum alios id, mea Lida, roga!
• nam me sic blandi cepit sibi Musa Catulli,
• Ut, quae vel peccat, cogar amare tamen.

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Bernardus Zamagna (1735-1820)

• De sua Odyssea ad Iliadem Cunichianam
• Non Latias ito florens jam sola per urbes,
• Ilyas en sociam quaerit ubique soror.
• Da timidae dextram, nec cultu elata superbo
• Nomen Odysseae noscere saeva neges.
• Tu prior es meliorque utque est me cedere dignum
• Cunichio, cedit sic minor ista tibi.

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Mourning the death of his teachers

• In obitum Raymundi Cunichii
• Albius ad tumulum residens unaque Catullus
• Cumque ipsis medius flet tua fata Maro.
• Laurus opacat humum subter, Raymunde, virentem,
• Quam tuus, heu, lacrymis usque Zamagna rigat.
• Vives, laure, meo vives humore, sed ipse,
• Quo pia te virtus sustulit, astra premis.

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• In funere Rogerii Boscovichii Rhacusini,
• quem publice in concione laudaverat
• Parvam te dicunt vilemque, Epidaure, nec esse
• Inficior te parvam ipse, sed esse nego
• Et vilem quantumvis immo sis mage parva,
• Te merito regnis omnibus antefero.
• Qui potis hoc, dices? Illius patria nonne es,
• Cui non ulla parem regna tulere Virum,
• Nulla ferent? Homines idcirco quam anteit omnes
• Rogerius, tam regna omnia tute supra es.
• EpidaurusRagusa