Horace (New Surveys in the Classics)
Cambridge University Press, 7/3/2014
EAN 9781107444447, ISBN10: 1107444446
Paperback, 120 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 0.5 cm
Language: English
This book sets out to give a full and authoritative survey of the scholarly literature on the Roman poet Horace (65–8 BC), a central figure in Latin literature and Western culture, concentrating on the period since 1957. It begins with a brief survey of key resources, focusing especially on material available online, and then looks at the overall shape of Horace's poetic career. The main chapters cover Horace's works chronologically, dividing them into early, central and late periods and thus echoing the trajectory of his poetic career. The final two chapters look at the poet's style and its variations across different genres, and at the extensive reception of Horace's work in Western European literature. This is followed by a full bibliography.
Preface
1. Resources for the study of Horace
2. Life, poetic career, self-presentation
3. Early works
Satires 1 and 2, Epodes
4. Middle period
Odes 1–3, Epistles 1
5. Late period
Carmen saeculare, Odes 4, Epistles 2, Ars poetica
6. Horatian style and literary texture
7. Receptions of Horace
Bibliography
Index.