Horace: Odes and Epodes (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199207704 ISBN 13: 9780199207701

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199207704
• ISBN 13: 9780199207701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Lowrie Michele