A symposion of praise : Horace returns to lyric in Odes IV / Timothy S. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Timothy S.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace. Carmina--Liber 4.

Horace.

Laudatory poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Laudatory poetry, Latin.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Odes--History and criticism.

Odes.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Praise in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]

Summary:

Ten years after publishing his first collection of lyric poetry, Odes I-III, Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) returned to lyric and published another book of fifteen odes, Odes IV. These later lyrics, which praise Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, have often been treated more as propaganda than art. But in A Symposion of Praise, Timothy Johnson examines the richly textured ambiguities of Odes IV that elevate the book beyond propaganda and engage the audience in the communal or "sympotic" formulation of Horace's praise. Through this wider lens of Horatian lyric, Johnson provides a critical reassessment of the nature of public and private in ancient Rome. A Symposion of Praise will be of interest to historians of the Augustan period and its literature and to scholars interested in the dynamics between personal expression and political power.

Contents:

1 Sympotic Horace 3

Looking Back 3

Levis et Gravis 6

Parties and Politics 12

Sympotic Horace's Epic Criticism 14

Sympotic Horace Exiled: Epistle II.2 and Odes IV.1 26

2 Encomia Nobilium and Horace's Panegyric Praxis 40

C.1 and 2: Great Expectations? Inventing Panegyric Discord 43

C.3 and 6: The Poet among the Nobiles 51

C.7: Panegyric and Politics, Putting Off Heirs 69

C.8 and 9: As the Wor(l)d Turns, Praise and Blame 74

3 Encomia Augusti, "Take One" 94

C.4: Epinikion[superscript One]-The Panegyric Agon 95

C.5: A Panegyric Tag[superscript One]-All in the Family 114

4 Songs of Mo(u)rning 134

C.10: Faces in the Mirror: Ligurinus, Horace, and Vergil 138

C.11: The Phyllis Odes and the Comic Power of Shared Lyric 145

C.12: Vergilius at the Symposion 158

C.13: E/motive Song, The Art of Writing Off Lyce 167

5 Encomia Augusti, "Take Two" 181

C.14: Epinikion[superscript Two]-Winners and Losers 182

C.15: A Panegyric Tag[superscript Two]-"I Really Wanted To!" 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and indexes.

ISBN:

0299207404

OCLC:

56880240