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基本説明
This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan Age sheds new light on Horace's works by the way it combines literary analysis with investigation into the poet's social and political circumstances.
Full Description
This study of one of the poets of the Augustan Age sheds light on Horace's works by the way it combines literary analysis with investigation into the poet's social and political circumstances. Lyne's approach focuses on the poet's relations with his patron Maecenas, with the Emperor Augustus, and with other grandees. Closely analyzing poems from "Satires", "Odes", and "Epistles", Lyne reveals not only Horace's public literature, but the private man behind it. He shows how Horace balanced deference with the careful assertion of his own social and political standing. According to Lyne, Horace was a master of private insinuation, as well as a skilled maker of public poetry. He was also a master in the art of ordering his works: exactly where a poem occurs is often of the subtlest importance. Lyne also examines the resumption of the great political lyric in the "Odes" of Book 4 (set aside in 23 BC), and contends that, beneath the public face, Horace here exhibited resentment, recording views that undermined earlier patriotic statements.
Contents
Introduction - the politics and society of Augustan Rome - background and sources; the Triumviral period - problems for Horace; the Triumviral period - solutions - image management; "Utilis urbi" - Horace's adaptation of the role of public and moral poet; political poet - literary strategies; the abandonment of the public role after 23 BC; resumption of the role - 17-12 BC; a problem inherent; signs of resentment.
