Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Arma gravi numero...

Salvete, discipuli!

You are going to be my guinea pigs this year as I create my first Latin-oriented blog. We'll have opportunities to ask one another questions about and comment on the poetry of Ovid and Vergil (and maybe even Catullus!) in this forum. Has something stumped you? Do you need help with meter, grammar, or translation? What the heck is going on in Amores I.2? Have you noticed something cool about the word order in a line of Vergil's Aeneid? How does one spell "hendecasyllabic"? (Like that.)

We may start slowly with this at first, but I hope we will have the opportunity to use this blog more as the year goes on.
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM

    The other poem that begins with "Arma" is "The Aeneid" by Vergil!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    -Gracie

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  2. EmmaSeptember 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    The aeneid
    -Emma

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  3. ZoeSeptember 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    The Aeneid by Virgil!!!
    Zoe

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  4. AlexiSeptember 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    "Arms and the man I sing" -- The Aeneid by Virgil
    Alexi

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  5. CassySeptember 16, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    The Aeneid by Virgil
    Cassy

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  6. Ms. DurhamSeptember 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM

    Yes, good! We'll talk more about this tomorrow...

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  7. UnknownSeptember 16, 2009 at 8:02 PM

    Haha I consulted my Sister and she gave me her Latin Poetry books, i found something really funny. She has written here that the Iliad by Homer, the epic poem, starts with a word "similar" to Arma and it's about the arms and the war. And the Odyssey also written by Homer starts with the word Virum, and it's about the man, Odysseus. And Virgil's Aeneid starts with the words "Arma Virumque cano". Which means "I sing of arms and a man". so Virgil was basically like HA homer in your face I can talk about arms AND a man in one poem!!....I feel smart now thanks to my Freakishly-Latin-Obsessed sister =P
    ...but yea, Aeneid by Virgil DOES indeed start with Arma

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  8. Ms. DurhamSeptember 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM

    Good find, Connor! Yes, you have hit the Vergil nail on the head, and we'll be talking a lot more about that when we start to read the Aeneid.

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  9. AndreSeptember 17, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    It's the Aeneid!.... I know I'm late XD

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  10. TessSeptember 17, 2009 at 7:18 AM

    I should have known, my dad goes around reciting "arma virumque cano" all the time whenever I mention Latin class.

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  11. DanSeptember 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM

    I don't have a comment so i'll just say what everyone else has said...
    It's the Aeneid

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  12. jrittenbergSeptember 18, 2009 at 4:41 AM

    Vergil, the Aeniad.

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  13. MarilynSeptember 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    The Aeneid, by Virgil

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