Horace

by Lyne, R. O. A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780300063226
• ISBN10: 0300063229
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan age sheds new light on Horace's works, combining literary analysis with an investigation into the poet's social and political circumstances.
Lyne focuses on the poet's relations with his patron Maecenas, with the Emperor Augustus and with other grandees. Describing his background, the book considers how and why Horace came to rely on patronage, and looks at the nature of that patronage. It identifies the point at which Horace adopted the role of political poet and shows how he evolved a public poetry for his particular society.

Author Biography

R.O.A.M. Lyne is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Background and Circumstances	p. 1
Appendix: Horace's Property, the Complete Story; Vergil's Property and Wealth	p. 9
The Triumviral Period (43-31 B.C.)	p. 12
Utilis Urbi: Transition	p. 21
Appendix: The 'Recusatio'	p. 31
Horace in the First Augustan Period: The Adoption of the Role of Public, Moral Poet: Literary Strategies	p. 40
The Unity of a Horatian Ode	p. 59
Grand Addresses in Odes 1-3 Order of Poems: Dispositio and its Effects	p. 68
Appendix 1: The Alcaic Stanza or Strophe	p. 98
Appendix 2: Callimachus' Aesthetic Statements, and their Roman Imitations (leptos, and so on)	p. 100
Grand Addressees in Odes 1-3 continued . . . Odes to Maecenas	p. 102
Appendix: Maecenas, Some Facts and Conjectures	p. 132
Hexameters to Maecenas: Satire 1.1, Epistles 1.1, 7 and 19	p. 139
Odes 1-3: Self-assertion and Irritants in Political Contexts	p. 158
Appendix: Sacerdos Musarum and Poet as Vates	p. 184
The Epistles and the Abandonment of the Public Role	p. 186
The Resumption of the Role: 17-12 B.C.	p. 193
Signs of Resentment in Odes 4: 'Sapping'	p. 207
Conclusion	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 218
General Index	p. 223
Index of Passages Discussed	p. 229
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