Slander and Horse Law in Horace, Sermones 2.1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michèle Lowrie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-431 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-685X • E-ISSN: 1541-2601 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/lal.2005.17.3.405 |
| OpenAlex | W2042357411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 1 |
Sermones 2.1 stages a dialectic between satire and the law through a dialogue between a satirist, Horace, and a jurist, Gaius Trebatius Testa. At stake is the relative power of the two rival discourses and what each says about contemporary politics. Caesar Augustus has recently consolidated power and put an end to civil war, changing what people could say in public. Through allusion to more and less familiar laws, Horace explores the extent to which freedom of speech still existed. Although he presents his position as impotent before the law, his friendship with Caesar trumps Trebatius’ legal formalism. The power of the satirist has been reduced from wicked humor to the license to point out the restriction in his voice—a critique whose gentleness masks its wit
Allusion · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophy
Introduction
Music and Metre
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation
Slaves and Roman Comedy
Fathers and Sons
Gods and Roman Comedy
Stage Action in Roman Comedy
Roman Comedy in Early Modern Italy and France
The Language of Roman Comedy
Roman Comedy in Germany (from Humanism to Lessing)
Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Metatheatre
Roman Comedy in Early Modern England
Comic Technique
The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence
Mothers and Whores
The Politics of Roman Comedy
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
Amant Alterna Camenae
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 2,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |