A Companion to Horace

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Horace

Editor(s): Gregson Davis

Published Online: 8 FEB 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405155403

Online ISBN: 9781444319187

DOI: 10.1002/9781444319187

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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 scholars
  • Exceeds expectations for the standard handbook by featuring essays that challenge, rather than just summarize, conventional views of Homer's work and influence
  • Considers Horace's debt to his Greek predecessors
  • Treats the reception of Horace from contemporary theoretical perspectives
  • Offers up-to-date information and illustrations on the archaeological site traditionally identified as Horace's villa in the Sabine countryside

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xvii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–4)

  3. Part I: Biographical and Social Contexts

    1. Chapter One

      The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's Poetic Voice1 (pages 5–33)

      David Armstrong

    2. Chapter Two

      Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument (pages 34–52)

      William Anderson

    3. Chapter Three

      Horace and Imperial Patronage (pages 53–74)

      Phebe Lowell Bowditch

    4. Chapter Four

      The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy (pages 75–90)

      Bernard Frischer

  4. Part II: Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts

    1. Chapter Five

      The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement* (pages 91–104)

      David Mankin

    2. Chapter Six

      Defining a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos1 (pages 105–127)

      Gregson Davis

    3. Chapter Seven

      Horace and Lesbian Lyric* (pages 128–146)

      Jenny Strauss Clay

    4. Chapter Eight

      Horace's Debt to Pindar (pages 147–173)

      William H. Race

    5. Chapter Nine

      Female Figures in Horace's Odes (pages 174–192)

      Ronnie Ancona

    6. Chapter Ten

      The Roman Odes (pages 193–209)

      Hans Peter Syndikus

    7. Chapter Eleven

      Horace: Odes 4 (pages 210–230)

      Michèle Lowrie

    8. Chapter Twelve

      The Carmen Saeculare (pages 231–249)

      Michael Putnam

  5. Part III: The Satires and Epistles

    1. Chapter Thirteen

      Horace and the Satirist's Mask: Shadowboxing with Lucilius (pages 251–270)

      Catherine Schlegel

    2. Chapter Fourteen

      Horatius Anceps: Persona and Self-Revelation in Satire and Song* (pages 271–290)

      Kirk Freudenburg

    3. Chapter Fifteen

      Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles to the Satires* (pages 291–318)

      Andrea Cucchiarelli

    4. Chapter Sixteen

      The Epistles (pages 319–333)

      W. R. Johnson

  6. Part IV: Reception of Horace's Poetry

    1. Chapter Seventeen

      The Reception of Horace's Odes (pages 335–366)

      Lowell Edmunds

    2. Chapter Eighteen

      The Metempsychosis of Horace: The Reception of the Satires and Epistles* (pages 367–390)

      Susanna Braund

    3. Chapter Nineteen

      Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica (pages 391–413)

      Leon Golden

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      Bibliography (pages 414–443)

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      Index (pages 444–464)

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