Author: MCNEILL, RANDALL L. B.
Title: Horace Image, Identity, and Audience
Description: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801866669. Book is fine. DJ has light scratches to rear panel and minor rubbing. ; Traditional views of Horace seek to present the poet as a consistent, vivid personality who stands behind and orchestrates the diverse "Horatian" writings that have come down to us. In recent years, however, an alternate tradition suggests that there may be many Horaces, that his work is more productively read as the constant invention of rhetorical techniques sensitively attuned to the requirements of different situations and audiences. As Randall L. B. McNeill argues, any sense that readers have of the "real" Horace is clearly deceptive; Horace offers us no unguarded self-portrait, but rather a number of consciously developed characterizations to suit diverse audiences, whether patron, peers, or the public. ; 188 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0801866669 Horace Latin Literature Classical Greek & Roman Poetry & Poets


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