A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IVUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 320 Ten years after publishing his first collection of lyric poetry, Odes I-III, Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) returned to lyric and published another book of fifteen odes, Odes IV. These later lyrics, which praise Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, have often been treated more as propaganda than art. But in A Symposion of Praise, Timothy Johnson examines the richly textured ambiguities of Odes IV that engage the audience in the communal or "sympotic" formulation of Horace's praise. Surpassing propaganda, Odes IV reflects the finely nuanced and imaginative poetry of Callimachus rather than the traditions of Aristotelian and Ciceronian rhetoric, which advise that praise should present commonly admitted virtues and vices. In this way, Johnson demonstrates that Horace's application of competing perspectives establishes him as Pindar's rival. Johnson shows the Horatian panegyrist is more than a dependent poet representing only the desires of his patrons. The poet forges the panegyric agenda, setting out the character of the praise (its mode, lyric, and content both positive and negative), and calls together a community to join in the creation and adaptation of Roman identities and civic ideologies. With this insightful reading, A Symposion of Praise will be of interest to historians of the Augustan period and its literature, and to scholars interested in the dynamics between personal expression and political power. |
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... banquet couch.41 The banquet couch helps determine the size of the drinking party ; with two on a couch , the average andron would hold between thir- teen and thirty guests.42 Subsequently , a limit is imposed on sym- potic space . This ...
... banquet couch.41 The banquet couch helps determine the size of the drinking party ; with two on a couch , the average andron would hold between thir- teen and thirty guests.42 Subsequently , a limit is imposed on sym- potic space . This ...
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... banquet is held ; prayers and a libation are offered to Augustus . The rite , as it is presented ( 29-36 ) , does not distinguish between praying to the princeps ' guardian spirit and directly to his person , or between the entities of ...
... banquet is held ; prayers and a libation are offered to Augustus . The rite , as it is presented ( 29-36 ) , does not distinguish between praying to the princeps ' guardian spirit and directly to his person , or between the entities of ...
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... banquets , when guests in turn sang the praises of their renowned heroes ! ] The evidence for such banquet songs is thin . The significant ac- counts can be reduced to Cicero's repetition of the above citation in Tusc . 1.3.1-4 ; 4.3.15 ...
... banquets , when guests in turn sang the praises of their renowned heroes ! ] The evidence for such banquet songs is thin . The significant ac- counts can be reduced to Cicero's repetition of the above citation in Tusc . 1.3.1-4 ; 4.3.15 ...
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Encomia Nobilium and Horaces Panegyric Praxis | 40 |
Songs of Mourning | 134 |
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