Friday, December 31, 2021

M/M: I'll Be Everything You Need: A Frament of Lucilius

 Favitorem tibi me, amicum, amatorem putes.

--Lucilius fr. 874

Think of me as your supporter, your friend, your lover.


LUCILIUS

MAP:

Name:  Gaius Lucilius

Date:  2nd century BCE

Works:  Satires

 

REGION  1

Region 1: Peninsular Italy; Region 2: Western Europe; Region 3: Western Coast of Africa; Region 4: Egypt and Eastern Mediterranean; Region 5: Greece and the Balkans


BIO:

Timeline:

 Lucilius was an Italian poet and one of Rome’s earliest satirists. Although his works and his style deeply influenced the genre of Roman satire, most of his writings are lost to history and only fragments remain. 

 REPUBLICAN ROME

Early Roman Lit: through 2nd c BCE: Republican Rome: through 1st c. BCE; Golden Age: 70 BCE to 18 CE; Silver Age: 18 CE to 150 CE; Age of Conflict: 150 CE - 410 CE; Byzantine and Late Latin: after 410 CE




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