Horace's later lyric poetry, Odes IV, which focuses on praising Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, has often been treated more as propaganda than art. But in A Symposion of Praise, Timothy Johnson examines the richly textured ambiguities of Odes IV that engage the audience in the communal or "sympotic" formulation of Horace's praise. Through this wider lens of Horatian lyric, Johnson provides a critical reassessment of the nature of public and private in ancient Rome. A Symposion of Praise will be of interest to historians of the Augustan period and its literature and to scholars interested in the dynamics between personal expression and political power.
- ISBN10 0299207404
- ISBN13 9780299207403
- Publish Date 27 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 September 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 344
- Language English