Stephanie McCarter

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Horace Between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of EpistlesHardcover, 8 December 2015

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Part of Series
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Part of Series
Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Hardcover)
Print Length
384 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published
8 Dec 2015
ISBN-10
0299305708
ISBN-13
9780299305703

Description

During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace's complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean.

She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any--a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic

renown and friendships with the city's elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. She reads Horace's reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age.

Product Details

Author:
Stephanie McCarter
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
8 December 2015
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0299305708
ISBN-13:
9780299305703
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Weight:
657.71 gm

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