Roman Lyric (eBook)

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Francis Cairns, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Prefatory note 6
Acknowledgements 8
Contents 10
Catullus 12
1 Catullus 1 12
2 Catullus’ Basia Poems (5, 7, 48) 17
3 Catullus 27 24
4 Venusta Sirmio:Catullus 31 29
5 Catullus 45: Text and Interpretation 47
6 The Genre ‘Oaristys’ 58
7 Catullus 45: The Wooing of Acme and Septimius 88
8 Catullus 46.9-11 and Ancient ‘Etymologies’ 100
9 The Nereids of Catullus 64.12–23b 104
10 Catullus in and about Bithynia: Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47 110
Horace 133
11 Horace Epode 2, Tibullus 1.1 and Rhetorical Praise of the Countryside 133
12 “Weak Sheep” in Horace Epode 2.16 143
13 Horace Epode 9: Some New Interpretations 147
14 M. Antonius and Hannibal in Horace Epode 9 160
15 The Genre Palinode and Three Horatian Examples. Epode 17 Odes 1.16
16 Horace Odes 1.2 176
17 M. Agrippa in Horace Odes 1.6 193
18 Five “Religious” Odes of Horace (1.10 1.21 and 4.6
19 Alcaeus’ Hymn to Hermes, P. Oxy. 2734 Fr. 1 and Horace Odes 1.10 217
20 The Power of Implication. Horace’s Invitation to Maecenas (Odes 1.20) 224
21 Horace Odes 1.22 (and Odes 1.2.39): Juba II and the Mauri 255
22 Horace on Other People's Love Affairs (Odes 1.27 2.4
23 The Philosophical Content of Horace Odes 1.29 295
24 Horace’s First Roman Ode (3.1) 303
25 Three Interpretational Problems in Horace Odes 3.1: saporem (19) cum famulis (36)
26 Horace Odes 3.7: Elegy, Lyric, Myth, Learning, and Interpretation 361
27 Splendide Mendax: Horace Odes 3.11 393
28 Horace Odes 3.13 and 3.23 405
29 Horace Odes 3.17 and the Genre Genethliakon 423
30 Horace Odes 3.22: Genre and Sources 452
31 Antestari and Horace Satires 1.9 473
Addenda and corrigenda 482
Bibliography 484
Index Locorum 507
Index of Latin and Greek Words 520
General Index 522