Horace: Odes and Epodes

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-920770-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate. Several classic studies in French, German, and Italian are here translated into English for the first time. A thread linking many of the pieces is the recurring debate over the performance of Horace's Odes. Fiction? Literal reality? A figurative appropriation of Greek tradition within the bookish culture of late Hellenism? Arguments both for and against gain a hearing. Michele Lowrie's introduction surveys the state of current scholarship and offers guidance on the seminal issues confronting the interpretation of Horatian lyric today. Suggestions for further reading and a consolidated bibliography open avenues for more extensive research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowrie, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Richard Heinze: The Horatian Ode

- 2: Steele Commager: The Function of Wine in Horace's Odes

- 3: H. J. Mette: 'Slender Genre' and 'Slender Table' in Horace

- 4: P. H. Schrijvers: How to End an Ode?

- 5: Mario Citroni: Occasion and Levels of Address in Horatian Lyric

- 6: Matthew Santirocco: The Maecenas Odes

- 7: P. L. Schmidt: Horace's Century Poem - A Processional Song?

- 8: William Fitzgerald: Power and Impotence in Horace's Epodes

- 9: Ellen Oliensis: Canidia, Canicula, and the Decorum of Horace's Epodes

- 10: Michael C. J. Putnam: The Languages of Horace Odes 1.24

- 11: Denis Feeney: Horace and the Greek Lyric Poets

- 12: Alessandro Barchiesi: Final Difficulties in the Career of an Iambic Poet: Epode 17

- 13: Don Fowler: Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics

- 14: I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay: Horace, Odes 4.5: Pro Reditu Imperatoris Caesari Divi Filii Augusti

- 15: Michele Lowrie: A Parade of Lyric Predecessors: Horace C. 1.12-18

- 16: Luigi Rossi: Horace, a Greek Lyrist without Music

- 17: R. G. M. Nisbet: The Word Order of the Odes

- 18: John Henderson: Horace Talks Rough and Dirty: No Comment (Epodes 8 and 12)

- 19: Alessandro Barchiesi: Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Lowrie is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.