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A companion to Horace
Title
A companion to Horace [electronic resource] / edited by Gregson Davis.
ISBN
9781405197342
140519734X
9781444319194
1444319191
9781444319187
1444319183
9781782685944
1782685944
9781405155403
140515540X
Published
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages) : illustrations, map.
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Summary
"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"--EBL book details.
Variant and related titles
Blackwell reference online. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Companion to Horace. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell, 2010
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2024
Series
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The biographical and social foundations of Horace's poetic voice / David Armstrong
Horace's friendship : adaptation of a circular argument / William Anderson
Horace and imperial patronage / Phebe Lowell Bowditch
The Roman site identified as Horace's villa at Licenza, Italy / Bernard Frischer
The epodes : genre, themes, and arrangement / David Mankin
Defining a lyric ethos : Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos / Gregson Davis
Horace and lesbian lyric / Jenny Strauss Clay
Horace's debt to Pindar / William H. Race
Female figures in Horace's odes / Ronnie Ancona
The Roman odes / Hans Peter Syndikus
Horace : Odes 4 / Michèle Lowrie
The Carmen saeculare / Michael Putnam
Horace and the satirist's mask : shadowboxing with Lucilius / Catherine Schlegel
Horatius Anceps : persona and self-revelation in satire and song / Kirk Freudenberg
Return to sender : Horace's Sermo from the epistles to the satires / Andrea Cucchiarelli
The epistles / W.R. Johnson
The reception of Horace's odes / Lowell Edmunds
The metempsychosis of Horace : the reception of the satires and epistules / Susanna Braund
Reception of Horace's Ars poetica / Leon Golden.
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