Profile of HoraceIn this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace. Horace is best known for his four books of Odes, cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Shackleton Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation. A variety of themes are elucidated, from the poet's relations with his patron to Roman sexual attitudes. Close scrutiny is given to about thirty passages which, he argues, have been misread. An appended essay on a notable predecessor, the textual scholar Richard Bentley, is especially revealing on the art of classical scholarship. |
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David Roy Shackleton Bailey. servas . fidis enim manare poetica mella te solum , tibi pulcher . ' ad haec ego naribus uti formido et , luctantis acuto ne secer ungui , ' displicet iste locus ' clamo et diludia posco . ludus enim genuit ...
... enim et non temere feceris , quoniam id usus mihi tecum esse volui , si per valetudinem tuam fieri possit . p . 65 Vita Horatii tui qualem habeam memoriam , poteris ex Septimio quoque nostro audire . nam incidit ut illo coram fieret a ...
... enim iste amor amicitiae ? cur neque deformem adulescentem quisquam amat neque formosum senem ? mihi quidem haec in Graecorum gymnasiis nata consuetudo videtur , in quibus isti liberi et concessi sunt amo- res ( bene ergo Ennius flagiti ...