Horatian Readings : Poetic and Literary Texture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Stephen.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature.

Romani poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

This scholarly compilation by Stephen Harrison focuses on Horace's poetic and literary oeuvre, emphasizing the intricate texture of his works, particularly the Odes. It explores themes such as poetic career progression, intertextual interactions with other poets and genres, structural analysis of Horace’s collections, and his engagement with political issues during the Augustan regime. The volume incorporates close readings of individual poems and examines Horace’s negotiation of cultural, political, and literary contexts, offering insights into his creative responses to civil conflict and political expectations. Aimed at academics, classical scholars, and students of Latin literature, the book provides a rich and detailed examination of Horace's contributions to Roman poetry. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of Original Places of Publication

Part A: General

1 There and Back Again: Horace's Poetic Career

2 The Initial Poems in Horace's Poetry-Books

3 Horace's Reviews of the Elegists

4 Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace

Part B: The Odes

5 Linking Horace's Lyric Finales: Odes 1.38, 2.20 and 3.30

6 Lyric Middles: The Turn at the Centre in Horace's Odes

7 Hidden Voices: Homoerotic Colour in Horace's Odes

8 The Homeric Hymns and Horatian Lyric

9 Horace on Sacred Space: The Odes and Augustan Temples

10 Interpretation and the Original Roman Reader in Horace's Odes

11 Not so Ancient History: Paris, Antony and Allegory in Horace Odes 1.15 and 3.3

12 Horace Odes 1.37 and the Mythologising of Actium

13 Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace Odes 2.1

14 Horace Odes 2.7: Greek Models and Roman Civil War

15 Horace's Hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): Politics and Poetics

16 Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil

17 Horace's Roman Odes: A Book within a Book?

18 Reading Vergil in Horace Odes 4.12

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-167917-9

OCLC:

1523373402