This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’s implicit theology of genius, it argues, related the public sphere of the nascent State (itself buttressed by birthday cult) to the private sphere of his relationship to Maecenas, and to the solitary sphere of his relationship to himself. At its core, this paper solves two problems raised by his final birthday-poem, Odes IV, 11, «The Blood-Offering Problem » and «The Birthday Problem » . In revealing Horace’s identification of his births and rebirths with those of Maecenas, this paper illuminates Horace’s novel coordination of cosmos, imperium and the individual, in ways that clarify his poetry, his new political theology of empire, and the ...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...
This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’...
This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’...
What you will hear today is a small part of a book that I am writing on The Ritual Forms of Narrativ...
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in l...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
This article examines how Horace represents Cleopatra and Mark Antony in his Odes and Epodes. In ord...
This article examines how Horace represents Cleopatra and Mark Antony in his Odes and Epodes. In ord...
This doctoral dissertation investigates poetic representations of Augustus as divine during the form...
Avec l'avènement du prince en 27 av. J.-C. s'ouvre à Rome ce qu'on appelle le siècle d'Auguste et qu...
Avec l'avènement du prince en 27 av. J.-C. s'ouvre à Rome ce qu'on appelle le siècle d'Auguste et qu...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...
This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’...
This paper gives a new account of Roman birthday-cult and the genius in the works of Horace. Horace’...
What you will hear today is a small part of a book that I am writing on The Ritual Forms of Narrativ...
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in l...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
With the accession of the princeps in 27 BC, begins in Rome the "Age of Augustus" - a period of poli...
This article examines how Horace represents Cleopatra and Mark Antony in his Odes and Epodes. In ord...
This article examines how Horace represents Cleopatra and Mark Antony in his Odes and Epodes. In ord...
This doctoral dissertation investigates poetic representations of Augustus as divine during the form...
Avec l'avènement du prince en 27 av. J.-C. s'ouvre à Rome ce qu'on appelle le siècle d'Auguste et qu...
Avec l'avènement du prince en 27 av. J.-C. s'ouvre à Rome ce qu'on appelle le siècle d'Auguste et qu...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
Horace’s fourth Book of Odes was published in 13 B.C.1 Ten years had passed since the publicat...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...