A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IVUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2005 M03 7 - 344 páginas Ten years after publishing his first collection of lyric poetry, Odes I-III, Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) returned to lyric and published another book of fifteen odes, Odes IV. These later lyrics, which praise Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, have often been treated more as propaganda than art. But in A Symposion of Praise, Timothy Johnson examines the richly textured ambiguities of Odes IV that engage the audience in the communal or "sympotic" formulation of Horace's praise. Surpassing propaganda, Odes IV reflects the finely nuanced and imaginative poetry of Callimachus rather than the traditions of Aristotelian and Ciceronian rhetoric, which advise that praise should present commonly admitted virtues and vices. In this way, Johnson demonstrates that Horace's application of competing perspectives establishes him as Pindar's rival. Johnson shows the Horatian panegyrist is more than a dependent poet representing only the desires of his patrons. The poet forges the panegyric agenda, setting out the character of the praise (its mode, lyric, and content both positive and negative), and calls together a community to join in the creation and adaptation of Roman identities and civic ideologies. With this insightful reading, A Symposion of Praise will be of interest to historians of the Augustan period and its literature, and to scholars interested in the dynamics between personal expression and political power. |
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... Maecenas and follows the first ode with a praise poem to Augustus ( c.2 ) . He then honors Vergil , the senior poet who intro- duced him into the circle , with a propempticon ( c.3 ) and follows it with a sympotic invitation to Sestius ...
... Maecenas and follows the first ode with a praise poem to Augustus ( c.2 ) . He then honors Vergil , the senior poet who intro- duced him into the circle , with a propempticon ( c.3 ) and follows it with a sympotic invitation to Sestius ...
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... Maecenas and commissioned by Augustus to compose the hymn announc- ing a new age , the Carmen Saeculare.1 Comprehending the breadth of Horatian poetry and putting into context its politics have al- ways been a large part of the intrigue ...
... Maecenas and commissioned by Augustus to compose the hymn announc- ing a new age , the Carmen Saeculare.1 Comprehending the breadth of Horatian poetry and putting into context its politics have al- ways been a large part of the intrigue ...
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... Maecenas and Augus- tus does not make it easy to set aside the political context and the questions implied: Who were Horace's ancient audiences and were they as interested in the politics of the circle as Horace's modern audiences? Were ...
... Maecenas and Augus- tus does not make it easy to set aside the political context and the questions implied: Who were Horace's ancient audiences and were they as interested in the politics of the circle as Horace's modern audiences? Were ...
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... Maecenas's circle as Varius ( 22–23 ) , a writer of epic . Horace does not have his pest pick Varius out of thin air as though any member of the circle might do for comparison . The pest too has an affinity for lengthy epic , although ...
... Maecenas's circle as Varius ( 22–23 ) , a writer of epic . Horace does not have his pest pick Varius out of thin air as though any member of the circle might do for comparison . The pest too has an affinity for lengthy epic , although ...
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... Maecenas's slaves to gain admission. The pest caps his pro- fession of love with comic panache by corrupting a proverbial declaration of moderatio into a manifesto of harassment: life gives mortals nothing without great labor ('nil sine ...
... Maecenas's slaves to gain admission. The pest caps his pro- fession of love with comic panache by corrupting a proverbial declaration of moderatio into a manifesto of harassment: life gives mortals nothing without great labor ('nil sine ...
Contenido
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3 Encomia Augusti Take One | 94 |
4 Songs of Mourning | 134 |
5 Encomia Augusti Take Two | 181 |
Notes | 215 |
Works Cited | 279 |
General Index | 301 |
Index Locorum | 309 |
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