Homage to Horace
A Bimillenary Celebration
Published on 8. June 1995
Book
Hardback
390 pages
978-0-19-814954-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the creme de la creme of contemporary international classical scholarship. The seventeen brand new pieces have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the poet's death, and range from detailed treatments of particular poems to general issues about Horace's literary techniques, themes, biography, and reception in later times. An introduction sets the book in the context of contemporary scholarship on the poet.
Reviews / Votes
some of the contributions in Homage to Horace extract interesting thoughts * Ancient 47 * Nisbet's greatness as a Latinist rests on the commentaries he and Margaret Hubbard have written together on the first two books of the Odes, and through the medium he has become synonymous with modern Horatian studies: Harrison's collection Homage to Horace is also Homage to Nisbet, and Nisbet's influnce is evident through the volume. * TLS * this collection of essays contains a useful, brief biographical sketch of the contributors, a fairly extensive bibliography, and ndex Nominum, Rerum, et Verborum and an Index Locorum. * New England Classical Journal XXIII.4 * Some of the papers in Harrison add to our knowledge of externals without pretending to be about the poetry as such. * The Classical Journal, Feb-March 1997 * It is a fitting tribute. The book surveys a broad range of Horatian topics ... Harrison has done well to bring together such a diverse collection, and the book will be a valued addition to any library. * Timothy S. Johnson, Baylor University, Religious Studies Review, Volume 23, Number 1/January 1997 * these are ... impressively competent papers ... for the several stimulating observations it offers and for the valuable material gathered in it, readers will be grateful. * D.M. Hooley, University of Missouri, The Classical Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 '97 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
639 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-814954-5 (9780198149545)
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Content
Some Twentieth-Century Views of Horace ; Some Structures in Horace's Odes ; De Capo Structure in Horace's Odes ; Design and Allusion in Horace Odes 1.6 ; Horace Odes 3.7: Elegy, Myth, and Interpretation ; Reading the Metre in Catullus 45 and Horace Odes 3.9 ; Horace, Daedalus, Pindar, and Augustus: Odes 4.2 ; Horace Odes 4.5: PRO REDITV IMPERATORIS CAESARIS DIVI FILI AUGUSTI ; Horace's Epodes: The Importance of iambos? ; Law, Rhetoric, and Genre in Horace Satires 2.1 ; Pindarici fontis qui non expalluit hastus: Pindar in Horace Epistles 1.3 ; Horace and the Reputation of Plautus in the Late First Century BC ; Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics ; Second Thoughts on Three Horatian Puzzles ; Horace's moyen de parvenir ; Libertino patre natus: True or False? ; Towards a History of the Poetic Catalogue of Philosophical Themes ; Reading Horace in the quattrocento: the Hymn to Mars of Michael Marullus