Horace: Odes and Epodes »

Michele Lowrie is Associate Professor of Classics at New York University.

This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate. Several classic studies in French, German, and Italian are here translated into English for the first time. A thread linking many of the pieces is the recurring debate over the performance of Horace's Odes. Fiction? Literal reality? A figurative appropriation of Greek tradition within the bookish culture of late Hellenism? Arguments both for and against gain a hearing. Michele Lowrie's introduction surveys the state of current scholarship and offers guidance on the seminal issues confronting the interpretation of Horatian lyric today. Suggestions for further reading and a consolidated bibliography open avenues for more extensive research.

Introduction Michele Lowrie Lowrie, Michele 1

1 The Horatian Ode Richard Heinze Heinze, Richard 11

2 The Function of Wine in Horace's Odes Steele Commager Commager, Steele 33

3 'Slender Genre' and 'Slender Table' in Horace Hans Joachim Mette Mette, Hans Joachim 50

4 How to End an Ode? Closure in Horace's Short Poems P. H. Schrijvers Schrijvers, P. H. 56

5 Occasion and Levels of Address in Horatian Lyric Mario Citroni Citroni, Mario 72

6 The Maecenas Odes Matthew S. Santirocco Santirocco, Matthew S. 106

7 Horace's Century Poem: A Processional Song? Peter L. Schmidt Schmidt, Peter L. 122

8 Power and Impotence in Horace's Epodes William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William 141

9 Canidia, Canicula, and the Decorum of Horace's Epodes Ellen Oliensis Oliensis, Ellen 160

10 The Languages of Horace Odes 1.24 Michael C. J. Putnam Putnam, Michael C. J. 188

11 Horace and the Greek Lyric Poets Denis Feeney Feeney, Denis 202

12 Final Difficulties in an Iambic Poet's Career: Epode 17 Alessandro Barchiesi Barchiesi, Alessandro 232

13 Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics Don Fowler Fowler, Don 247

14 Horace, Odes 4.5: Pro Reditu Imperatoris Caesaris Divi Filii Augusti I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay Du Quesnay, I. M. Le M. 271

15 A Parade of Lyric Predecessors: Horace C. 1.12-18 Michele Lowrie Lowrie, Michele 337

16 Horace, a Greek Lyrist without Music Luigi Rossi Rossi, Luigi 356

17 The Word Order of Horace's Odes R. G. M. Nisbet Nisbet, R. G. M. 378

18 Horace Talks Rough and Dirty: No Comment (Epodes 8 & 12) John Henderson Henderson, John 401

19 Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition Alessandro Barchiesi Barchiesi, Alessandro418

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