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From : poetryanimations
Added: Oct 13, 2009
Heres a virtual movie of a recital of poem called "A Ballad" written and recited by an unknown boy poet of approximately 10 years of age. This a relatively early example of a recording of a child poet reciting their work recorded in the early 1960's Children are not particularly well represented in archival recordings reading their poetry,other than perhaps reciting nursery rhymes. The wellbred precise diction of the boy reader sounds rather Victorian to me so I have used a photograph of an unknown Victorian boy of similar age as the visual image of the reader in this virtual movie. Julius Caesar wrote commentaries on the wars he fought in Gaul between 58 and 52 B.C., in seven books, one for each year. This series of annual war commentaries is referred to by various names, but is commonly called De bello Gallico in Latin, or The Gallic Wars in English. There is also an 8th book, written by Aulus Hirtius. For modern students of Latin, De bello Gallico is usually the first piece of real, continuous Latin prose. Caesar's commentaries are valuable for those interested in European history, military history, or the ethnography of Europe, since Caesar describes the tribes he encounters, as well as their military engagements. The commentaries should be read with the understanding that they are biased and that Caesar wrote to enhance his reputation back in Rome, passing blame for defeats, justifying his own actions, yet probably accurately reporting the basic facts. The downside of the standard reading De bello Gallico during the early years of Latin study is that it is an account of battles, with descriptions of tactics, techniques, and materials that can be hard to understand. There is debate as to whether it is dry. This evaluation depends on whether you can figure out what is going on and visualize the scenes, which in turn depends on your understanding of military tactics in general, and Roman techniques, armies, and weaponry, in particular. The upside is, as Vincent J. Cleary argues in "Caesar's "Commentarii": Writings in Search of a Genre," that Caesar's prose is free of grammatical error, Grecisms, and pedantry, and rarely metaphorical. Cleary also cites Cicero's tribute to Caesar. In his Brutus Cicero says that Caesar's De bello Gallico is the best history ever written. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on thisc video recording copyright Jim Clark 2009
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