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Provide the language and dates for all of the following. Also, provide basic information about the works of 8 of the following (at least 3 of which must be Greek and at least three must be Latin writers).PropertiusAusoniusPersius (Flaccus)LucianPolybiusQuintilianGorgiasCallimachusPliny the YoungerTheocritusLuciliusAeschylusHoracePythagorasClement of AlexandriaAugustine of HippoThe Venerable BedeShort Answers: write a few fact-filled or intelligent-thought-filled sentences on 8 of the following:scholiafragmentum/adigammaTLGCILIG2Wilamowitz-MoellendorffIndo-Europeanpoetae melici graecirecusatioSaturniansnumismaticsara pacisWrite a brief outline of the most important facts about 2 of the following:Name the main Greek (literary) dialects, list a few of their characteristic features (phonetic/orthographic) which distinguish them one from another, and give the name, genre, and century of an author who wrote in each.Discuss medicine in the ancient world, including schools, corpora, transmission of texts, major figures.Discuss rhetoric in Greece and Rome: including major theoretical texts, theorists, practitioners.Write a more extensive essay on one of the following:Discuss the appropriation of Greek literary forms by Latin authors. Who are some of the seminal figures and what are the key periods of activity? What historical and cultural pressures encouraged Latin literature to develop along Greek lines? Once you have provided some context and background by addressing those questions, focus on one particular work and discuss what in it is owed to a Greek model and what remains characteristically Roman in the author’s treatment.We all know that mostly well-educated, well-to-do males wrote most of the Greek and Roman works we have. Discuss some of the other sorts of author as well as the roles of other sorts of people in the works of these dead white males.Discuss the nature of Iliad and Odyssey: include orality, verbal formulae, story patterns, relation to archaeology and what we know of history, ethics and moral codes, epic cycle, anachronisms and inconsistencies and what they tell us about the poems, Discuss the transmission of texts from the authors’ hands to today’s editions, including: why did what we have survive? how did it survive? significant events and the timeline of transmission, significant institutions (libraries, monasteries, etc.), the physical evidence (codices, inscriptions, papyri, palimpsests, etc.), instances of great finds (Sappho, Menander, Philodemus), stemmata, textual criticism, etc. ................
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