Horace : behind the public poetry
1995, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Signed by previous owner, parts of the text highlighted. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright and strong. Item #420791
ISBN: 0300063229
Physical description; viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and indexes. Contents; 1. Background and Circumstances -- Appendix: Horace's Property, the Complete Story; Vergil's Property and Wealth -- 2. The Triumviral Period (43-31 B.C.) -- 3. Utilis Urbi: Transition -- Appendix: The 'Recusatio' -- 4. Horace in the First Augustan Period: The Adoption of the Role of Public, Moral Poet: Literary Strategies -- 5. The Unity of a Horatian Ode -- 6. Grand Addresses in Odes 1-3 Order of Poems: Dispositio and its Effects -- Appendix 1: The Alcaic Stanza or Strophe -- Appendix 2: Callimachus' Aesthetic Statements, and their Roman Imitations (leptos, and so on) -- 7. Grand Addressees in Odes 1-3 continued ... Odes to Maecenas -- Appendix: Maecenas, Some Facts and Conjectures -- 8. Hexameters to Maecenas: Satire 1.1, Epistles 1.1, 7 and 19 -- 9. Odes 1-3: Self-assertion and Irritants in Political Contexts -- Appendix: Sacerdos Musarum and Poet as Vates -- 10. The Epistles and the Abandonment of the Public Role -- 11. The Resumption of the Role: 17-12 B.C. Subjects; Horace Political and social views. Horace Criticism and interpretation. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Political poetry, Latin History and criticism. Politics and literature Rome. Poets, Latin ; Biography. Self in literature. Patronage. Politics and literature Italy Rome. Self-presentation in literature. Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. ; Biography. Rome (Empire). Rome In literature.
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