Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and His Readers

Houghton, L.B.T. and Wyke, M. (Eds.) (2009) Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and His Readers. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521765084

Abstract

Throughout his work, the Roman poet Horace displays many, sometimes conflicting, faces: these include dutiful son, expert lover, gentleman farmer, man about town, outsider, poet laureate, sharp satirist and measured moraliser. This book features a wide array of essays by an international team of scholars from a number of different disciplines, each one shedding new light on aspects of Horace's poetry and its later reception in literature, art and scholarship from antiquity to the present day. In particular, the collection seeks to investigate the fortunes of 'Horace' both as a literary personality and as a uniquely varied textual corpus of enormous importance to western culture. The poems shape an author to suit his poetic aims; readers reshape hat author to suit their own aesthetic, social and political needs. Studying these various versions of Hoarce and their interaction illuminates the author, his poetry and his readers.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Additional Information: Responsible for editing all items; liaising with publisher and contributors; compiling indexes (pp.350-6, 357-66) and bibliography (pp.324-49); introduction, esp. pp.1-7; individual chapter (pp.161-81)
• Keywords: Horace, Latin, reception, classics
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Houghton, Dr Luke
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology; P Language and Literature > PR English literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Classics
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN: 9780521765084
• Copyright Holders: Cambridge University Press

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