A Companion to Horace

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

Auteur
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).

Résumé
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

Contenu

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