Name: Horace's Narrative Odes
SKU: 18971337
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Author: Michele Lowrie; Mich?Le Lowrie; Mich Le Lowrie
ISBN: 9780198150534

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

Michele Lowrie; Mich?Le Lowrie; Mich Le Lowrie

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0198150539

ISBN13

9780198150534

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Synopsis "Horace's Narrative Odes "

Narrative has not traditionally been a subject in the analysis of lyric poetry. This book deconstructs the polarity that divides and binds lyric and narrative means of representation in Horace's Odes. While myth is a canonical feature of Pindaric epinician, Horace cannot adopt the Pindaric mode for aesthetic and political reasons. Roman Callimacheanism's privileging of the small and elegant offers a pretext for Horace to shrink from the difficulty of writing praise poetry in the wake of civil war. But Horace by no means excludes story-telling from his enacted lyric. On the formal level, numerous odes contain narration. Together they constitute a larger narrative told over the course of Horace's two lyric collections. Horace tells the story of his development as a lyricist and of the competing aesthetic and political demands on his lyric poetry. At issue is whether he can ever truly become a poet of praise.

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