Plato's Phaedrus and Latin Poetry

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Friedrich Solmsen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)

The seminar will focus on the mutual relations of content, style, and structure in Plato's Phaedrus. Major themes, such as soul, love, myth will be compared with their treatment in other dialogues and their place in earlier Greek thought. Second semester will deal with Roman poetry with a, wide choice of topics. These include 1) aspects of the love theme in Catullus, Propertius and Aeneid IV; 2) Lucretius (poetry, personality, Epicurean doctrines; 3) Roman origin legends in Aeneid VIII compared with "origin" poetry in Callimachus, and Propertius IV.