He's slightly less delightful when one really just wants to get on with the syllabus and read Apuleius. *cough*lastquarter*cough* But now...
Propertius and Tibullus. They're very serious and grave and, in Tibullus's case, oh!-for-the-simple-country-life, woe-is-me-the-traveling-soldier. In the Amores Ovid just sort of says, "Bwa-hahaha! You guys take yourselves so seriously! I mock you!"
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Date: 2007-06-04 12:24 am (UTC)Propertius and Tibullus. They're very serious and grave and, in Tibullus's case, oh!-for-the-simple-country-life, woe-is-me-the-traveling-soldier. In the Amores Ovid just sort of says, "Bwa-hahaha! You guys take yourselves so seriously! I mock you!"