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Influences of Callimachean Aesthetics on the Satires and Odes of Horace
| Author: | Coffta, David | |
| Year: | 2002 | |
| Pages: | 206 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-7247-9 978-0-7734-7247-1 | |
| Price: | $179.95 | |
This study investigates the literary program of Horace’s Odes as part of the Callimachean tradition’s emphasis on brevity, novelty, and refinement, as well as a familiarity with a critical vocabulary, formulated at Rome and mirroring the programmatic imagery and terminology pioneered at Alexandria. It begins with a preliminary analysis of the Satires, and discusses the ‘meta-literary’ aspects of both the Satires and the Odes.
Reviews
“The present book will be of particular interest to Latin Philologists specializing in Horace…..a bold, thought-provoking and stimulating contribution to the study of the influence of Callimachus in Roman letters and to the interpretation of the satirical work of Horace.” – Gabriel Laguna Mariscal, University of Cordoba, Spain
“. . . it presents in a very succinct and clear form the major features of the Callimachean programme as scholars have hashed it out over the past thirty years. . . . the study forms a very useful handbook of Callimachean aesthetics as they appear most clearly in Horace’s poetry, and in this regard I would highly recommend it to any student or scholar beginning research in this area. The bibliography is excellently inclusive.” – Diane L. Johnson
“. . . it presents in a very succinct and clear form the major features of the Callimachean programme as scholars have hashed it out over the past thirty years. . . . the study forms a very useful handbook of Callimachean aesthetics as they appear most clearly in Horace’s poetry, and in this regard I would highly recommend it to any student or scholar beginning research in this area. The bibliography is excellently inclusive.” – Diane L. Johnson
Table of Contents
Table of contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Programmatic Assertion and Imagery in Horatian Satire
3. The Aesthetic Programme of Horatian Lyric
4. Conclusions
Notes; Bibliography; Index
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Programmatic Assertion and Imagery in Horatian Satire
3. The Aesthetic Programme of Horatian Lyric
4. Conclusions
Notes; Bibliography; Index