Journal ArticleDOI
Horace, Odes 4. 1
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The introductory ode of Horace's fourth book has been given comparatively little critical attention, although it might have been expected to arouse exceptional interest, being the first-fruits of the lyricist's autumnal harvest as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The introductory ode of Horace's fourth book has been given comparatively little critical attention, although it might have been expected to arouse exceptional interest, being the first-fruits of the lyricist's autumnal harvest. The neglect is due partly to the poem's deceptive simplicity but much more to the unease which it arouses in Horace's admirers: Venus does not seem the most fitting deity for the poet laureate to invoke, and moreover this is not so much an invocation as an appeal to be left alone; the young man who is the subject of Horace's eulogy was hardly a person of much eminence at the time of writing, though he became prominent later and is now prosopographically well endowed; above all, there is the disturbing picture of the elderly poet testily acknowledging an amorous urge and surrendering his dignity in pederastic dreams.read more
Citations
More filters
BookDOI
Traditions and contexts in the poetry of horace
Tony Woodman,Denis Feeney +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a wine-jar for Messalla: Carmina is described, and the Odes, Catullus, and Greek lyric is discussed, where do you draw the line?
Book ChapterDOI
Traditions and contexts in the poetry of Horace: DREAMING ABOUT QUIRINUS: Horace's Satires and the development of Augustan poetry
Book ChapterDOI
Traditions and contexts in the poetry of Horace: HORACE, CICERO AND AUGUSTUS, OR THE POET STATESMAN AT EPISTLES 2.1.256
Book ChapterDOI
The uniqueness of thecarmen saecvlareand its tradition
Tony Woodman,Denis Feeney +1 more
Book ChapterDOI
Traditions and contexts in the poetry of Horace: BIFORMIS VATES : the Odes , Catullus and Greek lyric
TL;DR: The authors explored the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles, and shed light not only on Horace but on the general problems confronting Latinists in the study of Augustan poetry, and it will be of value to a wide range of upper level Latin students and scholars.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Poetry in the Moral Climate of Augustan Rome
TL;DR: The authors examine the implications of a contradiction in Augustan poetry which seems clearest in the Odes of Horace and find that the high moral tone ill fits his claims to be an erotic poet: content to love marriage as a bachelor, he addresses many odes to girls not burdened, nor likely to be, by the chains of wedlock.
Journal ArticleDOI
Statius and the Late Latin Epithalamia
TL;DR: Morelli and Mangelsdorff as discussed by the authors found that the first Latin epithalamium was Statius' Epithalamiam in Stellam et Violentillam, Silvae 1.