Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes

Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes
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Total Pages : 208
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Synopsis Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes by : Ronnie Ancona

Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal that love conquers time and the notion that he succeeds because he eschews illusions about love's ability to endure, this book challenges the assumption that temporality must inevitably pose a threat to the erotic. The author argues that temporality, understood as the contingency the male poet/lover wants to but cannot control, explains why love "fails" in Horace's Odes.

Horace

Horace
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Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015054449965
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Synopsis Horace by : Horace

-- Latin text in large, reproducible format -- Literal translation -- Sample tests -- Extensive, up-to-date bibliography

Poetic Interplay

Poetic Interplay
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9781400827428
ISBN-13 : 1400827426
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Synopsis Poetic Interplay by : Michael C.J. Putnam

The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the challenge that his accomplishment presented to his successors, including Horace himself. In Poetic Interplay, the first book-length study of Catullus's influence on Horace, Michael Putnam shows that the earlier poet was probably the single most important source of inspiration for Horace's Odes, the later author's magnum opus. Except in some half-dozen poems, Catullus is not, technically, writing lyric because his favored meters do not fall into that category. Nonetheless, however disparate their preferred genres and their stylistic usage, Horace found in the poetry of Catullus, whatever its mode of presentation, a constant stimulus for his imagination. And, despite the differences between the two poets, Putnam's close readings reveal that many of Horace's poems echo Catullus verbally, thematically, or both. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, Putnam guides us to a deeper appreciation of the earlier poet as well.

Horace's Odes

Horace's Odes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780198035626
ISBN-13 : 0198035624
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Synopsis Horace's Odes by : Richard Tarrant

Artifices of Eternity

Artifices of Eternity
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0801483468
ISBN-13 : 9780801483462
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Synopsis Artifices of Eternity by : Michael C. J. Putnam

The Townsend Lectures

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781400884117
ISBN-13 : 140088411X
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Synopsis The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace by : Horace

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture. Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts, religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9780521573153
ISBN-13 : 0521573157
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority by : Ellen Oliensis

This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between 'persona' and 'author', Ellen Oliensis considers Horace's poetry as one dimension of his 'face' - the projected self-image that is the basic currency of social interactions. She reads Horace's poems not only as works of art but also as social acts of face-saving, face-making and self-effacement. These acts are responsive, she suggests, to the pressure of several audiences: Horace shapes his poetry to promote his authority and to pay deference to his patrons while taking account of the envy of contemporaries and the judgement of posterity. Drawing on the insights of sociolinguistics, deconstruction and new historicism Dr Oliensis charts the poet's shifting strategies of authority and deference across his entire literary career.

Horace's Narrative Odes

Horace's Narrative Odes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 0198150539
ISBN-13 : 9780198150534
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Synopsis Horace's Narrative Odes by : Michèle Lowrie

Narrative has not traditionally been a subject in the analysis of lyric poetry. This book deconstructs the polarity that divides and binds lyric and narrative means of representation in Horace's Odes. While myth is a canonical feature of Pindaric epinician, Horace cannot adopt the Pindaricmode for aesthetic and political reasons. Roman Callimacheanism's privileging of the small and elegant offers a pretext for Horace to shrink from the difficulty of writing praise poetry in the wake of civil war. But Horace by no means excludes story-telling from his enacted lyric. On the formallevel, numerous odes contain narration. Together they constitute a larger narrative told over the course of Horace's two lyric collections. Horace tells the story of his development as a lyricist and of the competing aesthetic and political demands on his lyric poetry. At issue is whether he canever truly become a poet of praise.

The Priapus Poems

The Priapus Poems
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0252067525
ISBN-13 : 9780252067525
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Priapus Poems by :

Unmistakable by virtue of his exaggerated phallus, Priapus--one of Rome's minor fertility gods--inspired a host of epigrammatic poems that offer one of the best primary sources for the study of ancient sexuality. Despite their apparent frivolity, the Priapus poems raise basic questions of class and gender, censorship, and the nature of obscenity. The god's self-conscious indecency placed him squarely in the realm of comedy, but his role as guardian of fertility also gave him a deep religious significance. Richard Hooper's introduction explores this important duality and places the poems in their historical context. Essentially graffiti clothed in the refined forms of classical poetry, The Priapus Poems offers the reader "a trip to Coney Island in a Rolls Royce." Hooper's lively translation makes these playful poems available for the first time to the nonspecialist in an appealing, elegant, and readable version. This edition includes the original Latin texts as well as a commentary on classical references and textual problems.

Horace's Roman Odes

Horace's Roman Odes
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Publisher : Brill Archive
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 9004070060
ISBN-13 : 9789004070066
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Horace's Roman Odes by : Charles Witke