Homage to Horace
Subtitle: a bimillenary celebration
By: edited by S.J. Harrison.
Contributors: Harrison, S. J.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Horace -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Latin poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Rome -- In literature -- Congresses
Description: This book collects together seventeen new pieces on the Roman poet Horace, all specially written for the volume by scholars of international reputation. The book is intended both as a celebration of the bimillenary of Horace's death, and to mark the retirement of Professor R. G. M. Nisbet, noted Horatian scholar, from the Corpus Christi Chair of Latin at Oxford.

Almost half the contributions deal with Horace's Odes, treating individual poems and general issues such as structure and historical background. There are also pieces on the Epodes, the Satires, and the Epistles. A third of the collection deals with general Horatian issues such as the poet's social status, his treatment of politics, and the later reception of his poetry. An introduction sets the volume in the context of contemporary Horatian scholarship, and there are indexes and a full bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-375) and indexes.
Papers presented at a conference held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England, in September 1992.