What is Classics?
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Classics is the study of the language, literature, arts, history, culture, et cetera, of ancient Greece and Rome. In this video, I look at the origins of the word "classics" and how something that relates to ships came to refer to a field of study.
now I know what to say whenever someone asks me about classics!
Prōdigiōsus es, Magistre! I love the mesmerizing voice. Teach me to teach the way you do!
i feel so sophisticated using this term
In ancient Rome, the citizens of the first rank were called classici.
When Aulus Gellius contrasted a scriptor classicus with a scriptor
proletarius, the description carried an implication of quality which
is still current: we speak of a work being a 'classic' in the sense that
it is a model which deserves to be followed. The French were using
classique in this manner in the sixteenth century but it was not
until the eighteenth century in England and France that the term
'the classics' came to mean precisely the masterpieces of Greek and
Latin literature. Since at that time a classical education was
acknowledged as the only correct training for civilized life, such an
extension of meaning is not surprising. In the history of art as in
the history of literature, classicism is an approach to the medium
founded on the imitation of Antiquity, and on the assumption of a
set of values attributed to the ancients. The continuing importance
of ancient culture in many disciplines, such as law and
administration or epigraphy and poetry, is shown in the fusing of
the two senses of the word 'classic' in the term classical tradition,
which denotes the retention of, and elaboration upon, classical
values in the art of succeeding generations.
i stole this from my course material
Many thanks, it was great.
Deus tē benedicat
So, if I wanted to learn something more about how common people spoke in Ancient Rome, not the elite, what do you suggest? Plautus only? And, while at that, can we assume that works coming from the Republican era are written in a way more accessible to a common men that those from the Empire?
Yes, definitely Plautus. Graffiti helps, too. You can look at some of the novels of the 1st/2nd century AD for some help, too. There's a section in Petronius' Satyricon where a bunch of Equestrians speak, and from what I remember it was filled with seemingly incomprehensible agricultural metaphors.
even had time for mic-drop, xD! Good video...
I had to come here after hearing Harvard is discontinuing their classics studies. I think 🤔
Jesu carissime. What is this world coming to?
i think it’s howard you’re thinking of that’s cutting the classics department. still, very disappointing esp from a black man who wants to study classics soon :(