A Companion to Horace

Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University. His publications include Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (1984) and Aime Cesaire (1997).

List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Abbreviations Used xiii Author's Note xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I Biographical and Social Contexts 5 1. The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's PoeticVoice 7 David Armstrong 2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument34 William Anderson 3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy75 Bernard Frischer Part II Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts 91 5. The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement 93 David Mankin 6. Defi ning a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus lyricus andHoratian melos 105 Gregson Davis 7. Horace and Lesbian Lyric 128 Jenny Strauss Clay 8. Horace's Debt to Pindar 147 William H. Race 9. Female Figures in Horace's Odes 174 Ronnie Ancona 10. The Roman Odes 193 Hans Peter Syndikus 11. Horace: Odes 4 210 Michele Lowrie 12. The Carmen Saeculare 231 Michael Putnam Part III The Satires and Epistles 251 13. Horace and the Satirist s Mask: Shadowboxing withLucilius 253 Catherine Schlegel 14. Horatius Anceps: Persona and Self-revelation inSatire and Song 271 Kirk Freudenburg 15. Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles tothe Satires 291 Andrea Cucchiarelli 16. The Epistles 319 W. R. Johnson Part IV Reception of Horace's Poetry 335 17. The Reception of Horace's Odes 337 Lowell Edmunds 18. The Metempsychosis of Horace: The Reception of the Satiresand Epistles 367 Susanna Braund 19. Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica 391 Leon Golden Bibliography 414 Index 444