Horace

Bio: Horace is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poetry & Latin poetry. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 90 publications receiving 1087 citations.

Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica

Abstract: The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. In the Satires Horace mocks himself as well as the world. His verse epistles include the Art of Poetry, in which he famously expounds his literary theory.

Odes and Epodes

Abstract: The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text. Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horace's seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century imabic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; here the tone is generally that of satirical lampoons. "In his language he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; this new translation reflects his different voices.

The odes of Horace

Abstract: -L/avid Ferry's translation of Horace's Odes is very reader-friendly?almost too much so at times. In addi tion to easy idiomatic language it offers a biographical and criti cal introduction, helpful notes, a glossary which might better be called an onomasticon since it deals with names not vocabulary, and for the more exigent reader the original Latin. He simplifies the meters and takes liberties with the text that often achieve a desirable similarity of effect. The language in general would per haps be more suitable for the Satires and Epistles than for the Odes, where his most unimpeachable achievement is in the Car men Saeculare, which is a little more exalted, a little less ingratiating. At the beginning of 2.3 Mr. Ferry translates Horace's Aequam memento rebus in arduis I servare mentem as "When things are bad, be steady in your mind." But Latin res is not always an emotional equivalent for the English "thing," a word for which Mr. Ferry seems to have an almost Wordsworthian passion. "In arduous affairs remember to keep a cool head" is perhaps closer. But of course the real equivalent in English is Kipling's "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs." That really gives you the force of rebus in arduis. And Mr. Ferry, to do him justice, often works on the same principle. For example, at the end of 1.18, a poem on the uses and mis uses of Bacchus, he translates et tollens vacuam plus nimio Glo ria verticem I arcanique Fides prodiga, perlucidior vitro (lit erally, "and Vainglory raising her vacant head more than too much / and Faith prodigal of secrets, more transparent than glass") as

Rethinking the social impacts of the arts

Abstract: The paper presents a critical discussion of the current debate over the social impacts of the arts in the UK. It argues that the accepted understanding of the terms of the debate is rooted in a number of assumptions and beliefs that are rarely questioned. The paper goes on to present the interim findings of a three‐year research project, which aims to rethink the social impact of the arts, with a view to determining how these impacts might be better understood. The desirability of a historical approach is articulated, and a classification of the claims made within the Western intellectual tradition for what the arts “do” to people is presented and discussed.

Statius' silvae and the poetics of empire

Abstract: Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice. Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents. His position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it. The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign.

Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia

Abstract: The British treated Australia as terra nullius—as unowned land. Under British colonial law, aboriginal Australians had no property rights in the land, and colonization accordingly vested ownership of the entire continent in the British government. The doctrine of terra nullius remained the law in Australia throughout the colonial period, and indeed right up to 1992.

A History of the Roman Equestrian Order

Abstract: In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians played prominent roles in the Roman government, army, and society as cavalrymen, officers, businessmen, tax collectors, jurors, administrators, and writers. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the equestrian order, covering the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD. It examines how Rome's cavalry became the equestrian order during the Republican period, before analysing how imperial rule transformed the role of equestrians in government. Using literary and documentary evidence, the book demonstrates the vital social function which the equestrian order filled in the Roman world, and how this was shaped by the transformation of the Roman state itself.