A Symposion of Praise
Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10317228M
- ISBN-139780299207403
- ISBN-100299207404
- OCLC Control Number56880240
- OCLC Control Numbersymposionofprais0000john
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004025227
- Goodreads2159828
Classifications
- LCCPA6411 .J57 2004
Description
"Ten years after publishing his first collection of lyric poetry, Odes I-III, Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) returned to lyric and published another book of fifteen odes, Odes IV. These later lyrics, which praise Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, have often been treated more as propaganda than art. But in A Symposion of Praise, Timothy Johnson examines the richly textured ambiguities of Odes IV that elevate the book beyond propaganda and engage the audience in the communal or "sympotic" formulation of Horace's praise. Through this wider lens of Horatian lyric, Johnson provides a critical reassessment of the nature of public and private in ancient Rome. A Symposion of Praise will be of interest to historians of the Augustan period and its literature and to scholars interested in the dynamics between personal expression and political power."--Jacket.
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