Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

by Ellen Oliensis

Overview

Ths book is an advanced introduction to Horace that treats his whole poetic career and all of the genres in which he worked. Oliensis focuses on the social dimensions of Horace's poetry, considering how Horace shaped his poems and his books to promote his authority while also paying deference to his eminent patrons. The combination of scope, social emphasis, and theoretically informed close readings is what distinguishes this book from other current treatments of Horace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521030885
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/18/2007
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Face-saving and self-defacement in the Satires; 2. Making faces at the mirror: the Epodes and the civil war; 3. Acts of enclosure: the ideology of form in the Odes; 4. Overreading the Epistles; 5. The art of self-fashioning in the Ars poetica; Postscript: Odes 4.3; Works cited; Poems discussed; General index.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a thoughtful, stimulating, and engaging book, and Oliensis's approach holds great promise for other imperial authors. Highly recommended for libraries with collections in classics and literary criticism serving upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists." Choice

"...Oliensis takes responsibility for Horace as the author of all his poems. For Oliensis, Horace is an author—full stop. Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority proves a good scholarly introduction, as exciting as it is solid." Boston Book Review

"In a gratifying book, crafted with unusual care, Ellen Oliensis investigates Horace's self-fashioning in his poetry." Kenneth J. Reckford, American Journal of Philology

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