List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix
Abbreviations Used xiii
Author's Note xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Part I Biographical and Social Contexts 5
1. The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's Poetic Voice
7
David Armstrong
2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument 34
William Anderson
3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53
Phebe Lowell Bowditch
4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy
75
Bernard Frischer
Part II Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts 91
5. The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement 93
David Mankin
6. Defi ning a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus lyricus and Horatian melos
105
Gregson Davis
7. Horace and Lesbian Lyric 128
Jenny Strauss Clay
8. Horace's Debt to Pindar 147
William H. Race
9. Female Figures in Horace's Odes 174
Ronnie Ancona
10. The Roman Odes 193
Hans Peter Syndikus
11. Horace: Odes 4 210
Michèle Lowrie
12. The Carmen Saeculare 231
Michael Putnam
Part III The Satires and Epistles 251
13. Horace and the Satirist?s Mask: Shadowboxing with Lucilius
253
Catherine Schlegel
14. Horatius Anceps: Persona and Self-revelation in Satire and Song
271
Kirk Freudenburg
15. Return to Sender: Horace's sermo from the Epistles to the
Satires 291
Andrea Cucchiarelli
16. The Epistles 319
W. R. Johnson
Part IV Reception of Horace's Poetry 335
17. The Reception of Horace's Odes 337
Lowell Edmunds
18. The Metempsychosis of Horace: The Reception of the Satires and
Epistles 367
Susanna Braund
19. Reception of Horace's Ars Poetica 391
Leon Golden
Bibliography 414
Index 444
Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University. His publications include Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (1984) and Aimé Cesairé (1997).
"Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates throughfaculty." (Choice, 1 March 2011) "This is a fine and well-organised work that every Horatianscholar will need to consult, and which students of Horace andcolleagues from non-classical disciplines will also find useful".(Bmcreview, 17 January 2011) "These essays are not simply summaries of earlier work, butraise new questions about Horace, making this much more than areference work. Each essay has suggestions for further reading andthere is also a comprehensive bibliography." (Book News Inc,November 2010)
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