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The archaic poet Hipponax was a major influence on Horace's Epodes. The image shows him as imagined by the 16th-century humanist Guillaume Rouillé . The Epodes situate themselves in the tradition of iambic poetry going back to the lyric poets of archaic Greece .
Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov Horace reciting his verses, by Adalbert von Rössler. The Epodes belong to iambic poetry . Iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language; [ 32 ] [ 33 ] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry . [ 34 ]
As he was imitating Archilochus in form, he believed himself justified in repeating the sarcastic violence of his fierce model. These particular poems of Horace, which are short lyrical satires, have appropriated almost exclusively the name of epodes, although they bear little enough resemblance to the epode of early Greek literature. [2]
II.3 – Ars Poetica – The Art of Poetry – (Addressed to The Pisos) (For further discussion, see the Wikipedia article on the Ars Poetica) The Ars Poetica is dedicated to Horace's friend Lucius Calpurnius Piso (the Roman senator and consul) and his two sons. 1-23 – Unity and simplicity are necessary in a poem.
They compare Odes 3.26.4ff: barbiton hic paries habebit / laevum marinae qui Veneris latus / custodit ' this wall, which guards the left side of Venus of the Sea, will have my lyre ', where in a similar way Horace's intention to give up love affairs is symbolised by his dedicating his lyre in the temple of Venus. They argue that Neptune has ...
Odes 1.1, also known by its incipit, Maecenas atavis edite regibus, is the first of the Odes of Horace. [1] This ode forms the prologue to the three books of lyrics published by Horace in 23 BC and is a dedication to the poet's friend and patron, Maecenas. [2]
Odes 1.23, also known as Ad Chloen ('To Chloe'), or by its incipit, Vitas inuleo me similis, Chloe, is one of the Odes of Horace. The poem is written in the fourth Asclepiadean metre, and is of uncertain date; not after 23 BC.
The Alcaic stanza does not appear to have been used by any Roman poet before Horace. It is used in one poem of Statius (Silv. 4.5), imitating Horace, otherwise it does not appear to have been written by any major Latin poet. [51] The Alcaic stanza was often used by Horace for poems in the grand style, for example, the six Roman Odes (Odes 3.1 ...