Two Unnarrated Stories in Horace's Roman Odes (Carm. 3.2.1-12 and 3.6.21-32): Echoes of Vergil's Unfinished Aeneid and a Lowlife Epigram
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2023-01-01
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Within the rhetorical frameworks of exhortation and illustrative exemplum, Horace's second and sixth Roman Odes offer compressed, contrasting images of a young person's education and transformation, presenting these as stories about a puer and a virgo, respectively, in a lyric mode that does not narrate. In the first of these stories (Carm. 3.2.1-12), Horace slyly usurps characters from Vergil's unfinished Aeneid, alluding to some of its distinctive narrative techniques, but also draws on the similes and plot structure of its Iliadic model. The second of Horace's stories (Carm. 3.6.21-32) plays off his first, as he converts the adulta virgo who figures in Carm. 3.2 into her antitype. This story has as its intertext an obscene Hellenistic epigram by Automedon. Horace makes both intertextual and metatextual use of his models, while his indirect references, through Homer, to Vergil's intended design for his emerging Aeneid may be considered under the new heading of extratextual.
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Werner, S (2023). Two Unnarrated Stories in Horace's Roman Odes (Carm. 3.2.1-12 and 3.6.21-32): Echoes of Vergil's Unfinished Aeneid and a Lowlife Epigram. Antichthon. pp. 1–22. 10.1017/ann.2023.7 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/28791.
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Shirley Werner
My current research interests center on Latin poetry of the Augustan era. Since 2002 I’ve served as the Assistant Director of the American Office (Rédacteur/Editor) of l’Année Philologique, the international bibliography of classical studies, which publishes notices and abstracts of classical scholarship throughout the world, covering the ancient classical languages, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, science and technology, and allied topics. Previously, I’ve taught Latin and Greek language, literature, and civilization courses from the undergraduate through graduate seminar levels.
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