Horace`s "Carmen Saeculare"
Subtitle: Ritual Magic and the Poet`s Art
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780300083330
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Latin Literature; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Latin; Ancient Rome; Art patronage; Augustus; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Political and social views; Ancient and Classical; 63 B.C.-14 A.D; Augustus,; Carmen saeculare; Emperor of Rome,; History and criticism; Horace; Political poetry, Latin; Politics and literature; Ritual in literature; Rome
Description: "This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric by Horace that we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J.

Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a public ritual."--BOOK JACKET.