Horace : Odes and Epodes / / edited by Michèle Lowrie

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Disciplina: 874.01
• Persona (resp. second.): LowrieMichèle
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Horatian Ode""; ""2. The Function of Wine in Horace's Odes""; ""3. 'Slender Genre' and 'Slender Table' in Horace""; ""4. How to End an Ode? Closure in Horace's Short Poems""; ""5. Occasion and Levels of Address in Horatian Lyric""; ""6. The Maecenas Odes""; ""7. Horace's Century Poem: A Processional Song?""; ""8. Power and Impotence in Horace's Epodes""; ""9. Canidia, Canicula, and the Decorum of Horace's Epodes""; ""10. The Languages of Horace Odes 1.24""; ""11. Horace and the Greek Lyric Poets"" ; ""12. Final Difficulties in an Iambic Poet's Career: Epode 17""""13. Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics""; ""14. Horace, Odes 4.5: Pro Reditu Imperatoris Caesaris""; ""15. A Parade of Lyric Predecessors: Horace C. 1.12-18""; ""16. Horace, a Greek Lyrist without Music""; ""17. The Word Order of Horace's Odes""; ""18. Horace Talks Rough and Dirty: No Comment""; ""19. Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition""; ""Bibliography""
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate. Several classic studies in French, German, and Italian are here translated into English for the first time. A thread linking many of the pieces is therecurring debate over the performance of Horace's Odes. Fiction? Literal reality? A figurative appropriation of Greek tradition within the b
• Titolo autorizzato: Horace
• ISBN: 0-19-154885-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814962203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford readings in classical studies.