Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace

by Tony Woodman (Editor), Denis Feeney (Editor)

Overview

This collection of freshly commissioned essays covers the entire range of the works of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. The essays introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry, as well as a number of different contexts—political, philosophical, historical. The collection sheds light not only on Horace but on Augustan poetry in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521030342
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/02/2006
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.71(d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Tony Woodman is Professor of Latin at the University of Durham and the author or editor of numerous books on Latin literature.

Denis Feeney is Giger Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His most recent book is Literature and Religion at Rome (1998).

Table of Contents

List of contributors; Prologue; Acknowledgements; 1. Horace's birthday and deathday Arnold Bradshaw; 2. Amicvs certvs in re incerta cernitvr: epode I Ian M. Le M. Du Quesnay; 3. Dreaming about Quirinus: Horace's Satires and the development of Augustan poetry James E. G. Zetzel; 4. Biformis vates: the Odes, Catullus and Greek lyric Tony Woodman; 5. The Odes: just where do you draw the line? Alan Griffiths; 6. A wine-jar for Messalla: Carmina 3.21 R. G. M. Nisbet; 7. Feminine endings, lyric seductions Ellen Oliensis; 8. The uniqueness of the Carmen Saecvlare and its tradition Alessandro Barchiesi; 9. Solvs sapiens liber est: recommissioning lyric in Epistles I Kirk Freudenburg; 10. Poetry, philosophy, politics and play: Epistles I John Moles; 11. Horace, Cicero and Augustus, or the poet statesman at Epistles 2.1.256 Michèle Lowrie; 12. Vna cvm scriptore meo: poetry, Principate and the traditions of literary history in the Epistle to Augustus Denis Feeney; 13. Epilogue; Notes; Abbreviations and bibliography; Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

"If a library can buy only one new book on Horace, this should be that book. Highly recommended." Choice

"Woodman and Feeney have succeeded admirably...Scholars and advanced students will find in this collection of essays a stimulating reminder that poetry, like all language, is situated both in the world of definite time and place and in the universe of poetry and other literature." - Lee T. Pearcy, The Episcopal Academy, Merion, PA

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