Horace and Seneca: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Horace and Seneca

Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations

Edited by: Martin Stöckinger , Kathrin Winter and Andreas T. Zanker

Volume 365 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110528893

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About this book

This volume sets out to explore the complex relationship between Horace and Seneca. It is the first book that examines the interface between these different and yet highly comparable authors with consideration of their œuvres in their entirety. The fourteen chapters collected here explore a wide range of topics clustered around the following four themes: the combination of literature and philosophy; the ways in which Seneca’s choral odes rework Horatian material and move beyond it; the treatment of ethical, poetic, and aesthetic questions by the two authors; and the problem of literary influence and reception as well as ancient and modern reflections on these problems. While the intertextual contacts between Horace and Seneca themselves lie at the core of this project, it also considers the earlier texts that serve as sources for both authors, intermediary steps in Roman literature, and later texts where connections between the two philosopher-poets are drawn. Although not as obviously palpable as the linkage between authors who share a common generic tradition, this uneven but pervasive relationship can be regarded as one of the most prolific literary interactions between the early Augustan and the Neronian periods. A bidirectional list of correspondences between Horace and Seneca concludes the volume.

Author / Editor information

Martin Stöckinger, HU Berlin; Kathrin Winter, Universität Heidelberg, Germany; Andreas Tom Zanker, Amherst College, MA, USA.

Reviews

"This set of fourteen essays is the fruit of a conference held in Heidelberg in 2015 and is an engaging and interesting look at the relationship between these two titans of Roman literature—examining both how Seneca was influenced by Horace and also how they approached the same themes in very different ways. [...] As well as the index and bibliography the book contains a comprehensive bidirectional Table of Correspondences between Horace and Seneca running to twenty-eight pages, distinguishing between verbal and thematic echoes. A huge amount of work has gone into this book and it is a dazzling display of scholarship and intelligent close reading of these two enormous ancient talents. They deserve no less."
John Godwin in: Classics for All, 06.02.2018 https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/horace-seneca-interactions-intertexts-interpretations/

"Overall, the collection succeeds in presenting a variety of methodologies to explore the literary relationship between the two authors. [...] The volume is an interesting foray into the experiment of juxtaposing two ancient authors to explore how their points of correspondence might inform our understanding of them. The pair in question, Horace and Seneca, are not a slapdash selection, but one which, despite being traditionally classified in two different categories by literary genre, could be assured of a number of touch points due to their biographical details and choice of literary subject matter. One wonders what might result from other similar pairings or perhaps even more brazen pairings of authors. It is our very own modern Plutarchian project of Parallel Lives – and I look forward to more volumes. "
Yasuko Taoka in: The Classical Review 69/1 (2019), 111-114

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Philosophy in Literature – Literature in Philosophy
Dressing Philosophy with sal niger. Horace’s Role in Seneca’s Approach to the Diatribic Tradition Barbara Del Giovane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Nurses’ Prayers, Philosophical otium, and Fat Pigs: Seneca Ep. 60 versus Horace Ep. 1.4 Francesca Romana Berno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Saturnalian Exchanges: Seneca, Horace, and Satiric Advice Catharine Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
II. Horatian Verse in Senecan Tragedy
Custode rerum Caesare: Horatian Civic Engagement and the Senecan Tragic Chorus Richard Tarrant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Horatian Contexts in Senecan Tragedy Christopher Trinacty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Sounds and Space. Seneca’s Horatian Lyrics Tobias Allendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Strictness, Freedom, and Experimentation in Horatian and Senecan Metrics Jonathan Geiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
III. Themes and Concepts
Time in Horace and Seneca Gregor Vogt-Spira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Studiorum instrumenta: Loaded Libraries in Seneca and Horace Barak Blum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The Metapoetics of Liber-ty. Horace’s Bacchic Ship in Seneca’s De Tranquillitate Animi Elena Giusti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Constructing Oneself in Horace and Seneca Alexander Kirichenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
IV. Modes of Quotation and Issues of Reception
Nostra faciamus. Quoting in Horace and Seneca Ute Tischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Horace, Seneca, and Martial: ‘Sententious Style’ across Genres Nina Mindt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Seneca, Horace, and the Anglo-Latin ‘Moralising Lyric’ in Early Modern England Victoria Moul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Table of Correspondences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Works cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Contributors and Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Classical Philology and of Literary Studies, historians of Philosophy, historians.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 437
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Horace; Seneca; intertextuality; reception studies

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ISBN: 9783110524024

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ISBN: 9783110685251