A Companion to Horace (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Horace (2010)......Page 1
BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 4
ISBN: 9781405155403......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Abbreviations Used......Page 14
Author's Note......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
NOTES......Page 23
PART I - Biographical and Social Contexts......Page 24
CHAPTER ONE - The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace’s Poetic Voice......Page 26
NOTES......Page 49
The Scipionic Circle — analogy for later Horace?......Page 53
The Circle of Maecenas and Horace as poet - friend......Page 54
The Sermones : circle or circulation?......Page 55
Actium and Epodes: a circuitous route towards lyric......Page 59
The Odes: Circle poet Horace, not Maecenas......Page 60
Epistles 1: Horace as the center of friendship......Page 62
NOTES......Page 70
CHAPTER THREE - Horace and Imperial Patronage......Page 72
Literary patronage in ancient Rome......Page 73
The early years: portraits of patronage......Page 77
The Odes 1 – 3......Page 80
Epistles I......Page 84
Carmen Saeculare , Odes 4, Epistle to Augustus......Page 90
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 92
NOTES......Page 93
The site and its location......Page 94
The identification of the site as Horace's Villa......Page 98
New fieldwork......Page 99
Residence......Page 100
The bath complex......Page 101
Quadriporticus and garden......Page 102
The owners......Page 103
Conclusion......Page 106
NOTES......Page 108
PART II - Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts......Page 110
The Epode collection......Page 112
Parian Iambi......Page 113
Res et agentia uerba......Page 117
Annus horribilis......Page 119
Criminosis … modum pones iambis (Odes 1.16.2 – 3)......Page 122
NOTES......Page 123
CHAPTER SIX - Defining a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos......Page 124
NOTES......Page 145
CHAPTER SEVEN - Horace and Lesbian Lyric......Page 147
Horace epistles 1.19.21 – 33......Page 150
Odes 1 – 3......Page 152
Sappho and Alcaeus......Page 154
Arte allusiva......Page 156
Horatius sapphicus......Page 159
NOTES......Page 162
CHAPTER EIGHT - Horace's Debt to Pindar......Page 166
The Pindaric corpus......Page 167
Horace's professed attitude toward Pindar and the appropriation of the poetic past......Page 169
Horace's verbal debt to Pindar......Page 174
Et insurgit aliquando: Horace's grand - style odes......Page 175
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 189
NOTES......Page 190
Introduction......Page 193
Female figures defined......Page 194
Categories and presence......Page 195
Odes 1.1......Page 197
Odes 3.30, 14 – 16......Page 198
Cleopatra, historical figure......Page 202
Odes 1.5......Page 205
Odes 1.11......Page 209
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 210
NOTES......Page 211
CHAPTER TEN - The Roman Odes......Page 212
Odes 3.1......Page 214
Odes 3.2......Page 215
Odes 3.3......Page 217
Odes 3.4......Page 219
Odes 3.5......Page 222
Odes 3.6......Page 224
Conclusion......Page 225
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 226
NOTES......Page 227
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Horace: Odes 4......Page 229
Overcoming resistance......Page 231
Allusion and return......Page 232
Performance, writing, and the power of speech......Page 235
The communal voice and the eclipse of light poetry......Page 239
The aesthetics of praise......Page 243
Virtus, decorum, and morals......Page 246
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 248
CHAPTER TWELVE - The Carmen Saeculare......Page 250
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 266
NOTES......Page 267
PART III - The Satires and Epistles......Page 270
Horace's satiric persona in relation to Lucilius......Page 272
Satires 1.4 and Lucilius......Page 274
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 286
NOTES......Page 287
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Horatius Anceps : Persona and Self-revelation in Satire and Song......Page 290
Horace Satires 2.1.30 – 4:......Page 292
Life as (always a) metaphor, and the metaphors that write “life”......Page 295
The encultured auto of the poet's bio......Page 299
NOTES......Page 304
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles to the Satires......Page 310
The frame and beyond: Lollius, Celsus, and Albius......Page 312
In the middle: the boundary of ten, Maecenas and Aristius Fuscus......Page 317
"Interval” on the Thirteenth Epistle, Vinnius Asina, and Augustus......Page 321
Inside the frame II : Lollius and Maecenas (in reverse order)......Page 322
“Personal” revelations: Horace's sermo from the Satires to the Epistles......Page 326
Farewell......Page 329
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 330
NOTES......Page 331
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Epistles......Page 338
NOTES......Page 352
PART IV - Reception of Horace's Poetry......Page 354
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - The Reception of Horace's Odes......Page 356
Material mode......Page 357
Social mode......Page 360
Scholarly mode......Page 363
Aesthetic mode......Page 367
Odes 1.23......Page 372
Conclusion......Page 377
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 378
NOTES......Page 379
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Metempsychosis of Horace: The Reception of the Satires and Epistles......Page 386
NOTES......Page 409
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica......Page 410
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 432
Bibliography......Page 433
Index......Page 463