A Sympotic Achilles, Horace Epode 13

Lowrie, Michèle

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“…Some other readings: Fraenkel (1957) 65-6;Rudd (1960) 383-6;Kilpatrick (1970); Davis (1991) 11-16, 146-50. 25 See e.g. Lowrie (1992) 432: 'the generic and logical alignment of the exemplum according to the demands of the symposium cannot completely transform Achilles into a reassuring mythological precedent'. Cf.…”

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“…9.412–20), but this misunderstands the generalising nature of the prophecy, which emphasises Achilles’ spatial location at Troy ( unde … illic ) and conflates different temporal moments: cf. Lowrie (1992) 428 n. 3, and Watson (2003) 436.…”

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“… 31 Cf. Lowrie (1992) 432, for whom the contrast between the poet's tentative hopefulness ( fortasse ) and the ‘depiction of Achilles’ inevitable death serves to deepen the various fears expressed in the poem’. Yet the exemplum's ‘sense of universality’ offsets this by promoting an ‘impression … of similarity in human circumstances over time’.…”

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“… 1 See e.g. Lowrie (1992) 427–8, 431–2; Watson (2003) 436. It is important to distinguish between the textual prolepsis of the Iliad passage and the use of texts describing the prophecy itself, such as Bacchyl.…”

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“… 9 Kiessling and Heinze (1917) 11–18; Lowrie (1992) 431 n. 48; Watson (2003) 436. The latter comments that alloquium ‘here making its first appearance in extant Latin, is a calque on Greek παραμύθιον’, citing Soph.…”

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GLOSSING ACHILLES: HORACE,EPODE13

Phillips

2015

Camb. class. j.

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This paper argues that the final couplet of Horace, Epode 13 alludes both to the description of Achilles playing the lyre in Iliad 9 and to ancient scholarly debate about the Homeric passage. Horace's reworking of the Iliad underlines his transfer of epic material to a sympotic setting, and the scholarly allusion reinforces Horace's presentation of himself as a symposiastic speaker by drawing on the tradition of symposia as sites of learned conversation. This dual engagement with Homer encourages readers to see their own responses to Horace's poem as part of a continuum of literary debate.

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