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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140620903321

Titolo

A companion to Horace [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gregson Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, MA, USA, : Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-78268-594-4

1-282-48245-9

9786612482458

9781444319194

1-4051-9734-X

1-4443-1918-3

1-4443-1919-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Altri autori (Persone)

DavisGregson

Disciplina

871.01

871/.01

874.01

Soggetti

Poets, Latin

Epistolary poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Laudatory poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Verse satire, Latin - History and criticism

Rome In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANION TO HORACE; Contents; Figures; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations Used; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Biographical and Social Contexts; CHAPTER ONE: The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's Poetic Voice; CHAPTER TWO: Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument; CHAPTER THREE: Horace and Imperial Patronage; CHAPTER FOUR: The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy; PART II: Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts; CHAPTER FIVE: The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement*



CHAPTER SIX: Defining a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melosCHAPTER SEVEN: Horace and Lesbian Lyric*; CHAPTER EIGHT: Horace's Debt to Pindar; CHAPTER NINE: Female Figures in Horace's Odes; CHAPTER TEN: The Roman Odes; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Horace: Odes 4; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Carmen Saeculare; PART III: The Satires and Epistles; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Horace and the Satirist's Mask: Shadowboxing with Lucilius; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Horatius Anceps: Persona and Self-revelation in Satire and Song*; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles to the Satires*

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The EpistlesPART IV: Reception of Horace's Poetry; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Reception of Horace's Odes; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Metempsychosis of Horace: The Reception of the Satires and Epistles*; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to Horace features a collection of commissioned interpretive essays by leading scholars in the field of Latin literature covering the entire generic range of works produced by Horace.Features original essays by a wide range of leading literary scholarsExceeds expectations for the standard handbook by featuring essays that challenge, rather than just summarize, conventional views of Homer's work and influenceConsiders Horace's debt to his Greek predecessorsTreats the reception of Horace from contemporary theoretical pe