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A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV

A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV

Johnson, Timothy

Hardcover

Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0299207404
ISBN13: 9780299207403
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Jan 27 2005
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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 engage the audience in the communal or sympotic formulation of Horace's praise. Surpassing propaganda, Odes IV reflects the finely nuanced and imaginative poetry of Callimachus rather than the traditions of Aristotelian and Ciceronian rhetoric, which advise that praise should present commonly admitted virtues and vices. In this way, Johnson demonstrates that Horace's application of competing perspectives establishes him as Pindar's rival.

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