Writing Down Epic
Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.6
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21303647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Rohland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-131 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-837X • E-ISSN: 1546-072X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/722537 |
| OpenAlex | W4312192149 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This note sheds new light on Horace’s translation of the opening of the Iliad at Odes 1.6. It is frequently noted that Horace’s parodic translation turns Achilles’ epic wrath into a bathetic “feeling of annoyance” (stomachus). Yet this note argues that Horace is indebted here also to Odyssey Book 17, which already included a similarly bathetic take on the opening of the Iliad. As Horace refuses to write epic poetry in Odes 1.6, he writes anti-epic poetry that is paradoxically at least as Homeric as any epic poem
Allusion · Art · EPIC · Literature · Ode · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |