Horace: Odes and Epodes

481 Pages·2009·1.96 MB·English

by  Michele Lowrie

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Acknowledgements
All the essays in this collection (apart from the Introduction) have
been previously published elsewhere, as listed at the end of the
volume. The editor and Oxford University Press are grateful to the
publishersoftherelevantjournalsandbooksfortheirpermissionto
reprint. The translations from French, German, and Italian are col-
laborative efforts by Maya Jessica Alapin, Ada Bronowski, Leofranc
Holford-Strevens, Miche`le Lowrie, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Barbara
NatalieNagel,andtheoriginalauthors.Iamparticularlygratefulto
LeofrancHolford-Strevens,whosuppliedreferencestomuchancient
andmodernliteratureintheHeinze.Theseareindicatedinbrackets.
Translations of Latin and Greek have been added by the authors,
exceptforthedeceasedornon-nativespeakersofEnglish,wherethey
are by M. Lowrie. Special thanks go to Danielle La Londe, who
scanned and reformatted the articles, produced the consolidated
bibliography, and has been a model assistant. The articles are listed
inchronologicalorder.
Permissiontoreprintthefollowingarticlesisgratefullyacknowledged.
RichardHeinze,‘TheHoratianOde’,translatedfrom‘DieHorazischeOde’,
NeueJahrbu¨cher51(1923),153–68.
Steele Commager, ‘The Function of Wine in Horace’s Odes’, Transactions
andProceedingsoftheAmericanPhilologicalAssociation,88(1957),68–80.
H. J. Mette, ‘‘‘Slender Genre’’ and ‘‘Slender Table’’ in Horace’, translated
from‘‘‘genustenue’’und‘‘mensatenuis’’beiHoraz’,MuseumHelveticum,
18(1961),136–9.
P.H.Schrijvers,‘HowtoEndanOde?’,translatedfrom‘Commentterminer
uneode?’,Mnemosyne,26(1973),140–59.
MarioCitroni,‘OccasionandLevelsofAddressinHoratianLyric’,translated
from‘OccasioneepianididestinazionenellaliricadiOrazio’,Materialie
discussionidellaculturaclassica,10–11(1983),133–214.
Matthew Santirocco, ‘The Maecenas Odes’, Transactions andProceedings of
theAmericanPhilologicalAssociation,114(1984),241–53.
vi Acknowledgements
Peter L. Schmidt, ‘Horace’s Century Poem—A Processional Song?’, trans-
lated from ‘Horaz’ Sa¨kulargedicht—ein Prozessionslied?’, Der Altspra-
chlicheUnterricht,28.4(1985),42–53.
William Fitzgerald, ‘Power and Impotence in Horace’s Epodes’, Ramus 17
(1988),176–91.
Ellen Oliensis, ‘Canidia, Canicula, and the Decorum of Horace’s Epodes’,
Arethusa,24(1991),107–38.
MichaelC.J.Putnam,‘TheLanguagesofHoraceOdes1.24’,CJ88(1992),
123–35.
DenisFeeney,‘HoraceandtheGreekLyricPoets’,inN.Rudd(ed.),Horace
2000:ACelebration,EssaysfortheBimillennium(London,1993),41–63.
Alessandro Barchiesi, ‘Final DiYculties in the Career of an Iambic Poet:
Epode 17’, translated from ‘Ultime diYcolta` nella carriera di un poeta
giambico: L’epodo XVII’, in Atti dei convegni di Venosa, Napoli, Roma,
novembre1993(Venosa,1994),205–220.
DonFowler,‘HoraceandtheAesthetics ofPolitics’,inS.J.Harrison(ed.),
HomagetoHorace:ABimillenaryCelebration(Oxford,1995),248–66.
I.M.LeM.DuQuesnay,‘Horace,Odes4.5:ProRedituImperatorisCaesari
DiviFiliiAugusti’,inS.J.Harrison(ed.),HomagetoHorace:ABimillenary
Celebration(Oxford,1995),128–87.
Miche`leLowrie,‘AParadeofLyricPredecessors:HoraceC.1.12–18’,Phoe-
nix,49(1995),33–49.
LuigiRossi,‘Horace,aGreekLyristwithoutMusic’,translatedfrom‘Orazio,
un lirico greco senza musica’, Seminari Romani di cultura greca, 1 (Uni-
versita` diRoma,1998),163–81.
R.G.M.Nisbet,‘TheWordOrderoftheOdes’,inJ.N.AdamsandR.G.Mayer
(eds.),AspectsoftheLanguageofLatinPoetry(Oxford1999),135–54.
JohnHenderson,‘HoraceTalksRoughandDirty:NoComment(Epodes8&
12)’,Scholia8(1999),3–16.
AlessandroBarchiesi,‘RitualsinInk:HoraceontheGreekLyricTradition’,
in M. Depew and D. Obbink (eds.) Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons,
andSociety(Cambridge,Mass.,2000),167–82.
Contents
Introduction 1
Mich`eleLowrie
1. TheHoratianOde 11
RichardHeinze
2. TheFunctionofWineinHorace’sOdes 33
SteeleCommager
3. ‘SlenderGenre’and‘SlenderTable’inHorace 50
HansJoachimMette
4. HowtoEndanOde?ClosureinHorace’sShortPoems 56
P.H.Schrijvers
5. OccasionandLevelsofAddressinHoratianLyric 72
MarioCitroni
6. TheMaecenasOdes 106
MatthewS.Santirocco
7. Horace’sCenturyPoem:AProcessionalSong? 122
PeterL.Schmidt
8. PowerandImpotenceinHorace’sEpodes 141
WilliamFitzgerald
9. Canidia,Canicula,andtheDecorumofHorace’sEpodes 160
EllenOliensis
10. TheLanguagesofHoraceOdes1.24 188
MichaelC.J.Putnam
11. HoraceandtheGreekLyricPoets 202
DenisFeeney
12. FinalDifficultiesinanIambicPoet’sCareer:Epode17 232
AlessandroBarchiesi
13. HoraceandtheAestheticsofPolitics 247
DonFowler
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14. Horace,Odes4.5:ProRedituImperatorisCaesaris
DiviFiliiAugusti 271
I.M.LeM.DuQuesnay
15. AParadeofLyricPredecessors:HoraceC.1.12–18 337
Mich`eleLowrie
16. Horace,aGreekLyristwithoutMusic 356
LuigiRossi
17. TheWordOrderofHorace’sOdes 378
R.G.M.Nisbet
18. HoraceTalksRoughandDirty:NoComment
(Epodes8&12) 401
JohnHenderson
19. RitualsinInk:HoraceontheGreekLyricTradition 418
AlessandroBarchiesi
Bibliography 441
Introduction
Miche`le Lowrie
ThesecondaryliteratureonHoratianlyricisvast,andthelasttwenty
tothirtyyearshavebeenparticularlyrichforthestudyofthisauthor.
A signiWcant number of monographs and volumes of essays on
Horace has been published, particularly around the time of the
bimillennium of his death in 1992, as well as many free-standing
articlesandarticlesinvolumesontheAugustanage.Notablecollec-
tions of essays on Horace are Opperman (1972), Ludwig (1993),
Rudd (1993), Santirocco (1994), Harrison (1995), Konstan (1995),
WoodmanandFeeney(2002),andHarrison(2007).Justrecentlythe
majorcommentariesofWatsonontheEpodes(2003)andNisbetand
Rudd on Odes 3 (2004) have come out. My selection here means to
point students toward beginning research on Horace, and to that
end, several principles of selection (not all consistent with each
other) are operative. I include classic articles, some going back to
theearlytwentiethcentury,ofteninFrench,German,orItalian,that
have never been translated, as well as pieces that represent, in my
view, the best recent thought on Horace, evenwhen I disagree with
themethodorconclusions.Itrytorepresentarangeofapproaches,
and since there are many more worthy articles than could be
included, I give preference to those not already easily accessible.
Still, the inXuence of several articles has overridden this principle.
Although much excellent work has consisted of the close reading of
individual poems and several such are included here—by Michael
C.J.Putnam,AlessandroBarchiesi(Epodes),I.M.LeM.DuQuesnay,
and John Henderson—I have inclined toward researchwith a more