A Companion to Horace (eBook)

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 Aimé Cesairé (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 Poetic
Voice 7

David Armstrong

2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument
34

William Anderson

3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53

Phebe Lowell Bowditch

4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy
75

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 and
Horatian 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

Michèle Lowrie

12. The Carmen Saeculare 231

Michael Putnam

Part III The Satires and Epistles 251

13. Horace and the Satirist's Mask: Shadowboxing with
Lucilius 253

Catherine Schlegel

14. Horatius Anceps: Persona and Self-revelation in
Satire and Song 271

Kirk Freudenburg

15. Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles to
the 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 Satires
and Epistles 367

Susanna Braund

19. Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica 391

Leon Golden

Bibliography 414

Index 444

"Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through
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"This is a fine and well-organised work that every Horatian
scholar will need to consult, and which students of Horace and
colleagues from non-classical disciplines will also find useful".
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"These essays are not simply summaries of earlier work, but
raise new questions about Horace, making this much more than a
reference work. Each essay has suggestions for further reading and
there is also a comprehensive bibliography." (Book News Inc,
November 2010)