The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to by Stephen Harrison
By Stephen Harrison
Horace is a critical writer in Latin literature. His paintings spans a variety of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he's simply as a lot at domestic writing approximately love and wine as he's approximately philosophy and literary feedback. He additionally turned a key literary determine within the regime of the Emperor Augustus. during this quantity an outstanding foreign solid of participants current a stimulating and available evaluation of the poet, his paintings, its issues and its reception. this offers the orientation and assurance wanted via non-specialists and scholars, but additionally indicates clean and galvanizing views from which experts may gain advantage. because the final common e-book on Horace used to be released part a century in the past, there was a sea-change in perceptions of his paintings and within the literary research of classical literature usually, and this territory is absolutely charted during this significant other.
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The structure of the book in content and in metre diverges. The result is both humorous (on the level of content) and self-assertive (on the level of art). Odes Book I Odes 1 advances beyond the Epodes. Horace takes on a more complex tradition. ‘Archaic lyric’ covers a multitude of dialects, metres and subjects, and various modes of performance. Somewhat as in the Epodes, Horace wishes both to encompass the whole tradition, and to appropriate the genre through one paradigmatic author: Alcaeus. The Lesbian poets Alcaeus and Sappho (sixth century) appear from papyrus the most-read lyric poets, apart from Pindar (fifth century), commonly regarded as supreme.
In what follows I want to consider some aspects of the poet’s self-representation in Horace’s work, in particular the deliberate occlusion in his poetic texts of some of the most important events in his biographical life1 and his sometimes self-deprecating presentation of his poetic status. g. Oliensis (1998). 22 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Horatian self-representations ut tuto ab atris corpore uiperis dormirem et ursis, ut premerer sacra lauroque conlataque myrto, non sine dis animosus infans.
Ce; scholia in various hands), P. Louvre E. 3320/R56 (1st cent. ce; mostly same hand as text), P. Berol. 9569 (BKT v(2)3–6; 1st cent. ce; same hand as text; Alcaeus). 36 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Horace and archaic Greek poetry Horace’s own works are best approached as books of poems with a shape and a strategy, not just as individual poems collected together. 5 It will be shown how each of Horace’s books uses archaic poets differently, how each deploys them to fashion an identity and create its own significant structure.