Table of Contents

Introduction - the politics and society of Augustan Rome - background and sources; the Triumviral period - problems for Horace; the Triumviral period - solutions - image management; "Utilis urbi" - Horace's adaptation of the role of public and moral poet; political poet - literary strategies; the abandonment of the public role after 23 BC; resumption of the role - 17-12 BC; a problem inherent; signs of resentment.

About the Author

R.O.A.M. Lyne is a fellow and tutor in classics at Balliol College, Oxford. Among his books are The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace (1980) and Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid (1987).