Horace's "Carmen Saeculare": Ritual Magic and the Poets Art - Softcover

Putnam, Michael C. J.

 
9780300182668: Horace's "Carmen Saeculare": Ritual Magic and the Poets Art
Softcover
ISBN 10: 030018266X ISBN 13: 9780300182668
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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 of Horace 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. A rich and compelling work, this poem is a masterpiece, Putnam shows, and it represents a crucial link in the development of Rome's outstanding lyric poet.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030018266X
ISBN 13 
9780300182668
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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