This project would not have been possible without a sabbatical leave generously endorsed by John Gatta, Dean of the College. In particular I would like to thank Christopher McDonough for being a model of collegiality and an ideal departmental chair. I have had a great deal of support at Sewanee: The University of the South during the writing of this book. I am deeply thankful for these teachers and mentors. In addition to those already listed, these include especially Christopher Craig, Susan Martin, David Tandy, Anne Groton, and Jane Crawford. Over the years I have received the benefit of having many an utile exemplar in the field of Classics. I am indebted also to Jenny Strauss Clay, Edward Courtney, Elizabeth Sutherland, and David Rohrbacher for teaching me a great deal about Horace. Special thanks are due to the other members of my doctoral committee, John Miller, Tony Woodman, and Dan Devereux, who provided much helpful feedback and criticism. Sara Myers, who directed the dissertation and has provided invaluable guidance on a number of other projects along the way. I am especially grateful for the many years of encouragement and support provided by K. This book started life as a doctoral dissertation completed in 2007 at the University of Virginia, where I could not have asked for a more vibrant Classics community or a more generous group of colleagues and friends. |onclusion: Freedom and Publication in Epistles 1.13 and 1.20 PA6411.M334 2015 871´.01-dc23 2015009227Ģ Horace the Student: Inconsistency and Sickness in Epistles 1.1, 1.8, and 1.15ģ Horace the Teacher: Poetry and Philosophy in Epistles 1.1 and 1.2Ĥ Nil Admirari: The Moral Adviser of Epistles 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.12ĥ Otia Liberrima: Horace, Maecenas, and the Sabine Farm in Epistles 1.7 and 1.16Ħ The Limits of Rural Libertas: Epistles 1.10, 1.11, and 1.14ħ Moderate Freedom and Friendship: Epistles 1.17 and 1.18Ĩ Moderate Freedom and Poetry: Epistles 1.3 and 1.19 Epistolary poetry, Latin-History and criticism. (Wisconsin studies in classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. Horace between freedom and slavery : the first book of Epistles / Stephanie McCarter. Rights inquiries should be directed to Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCarter, Stephanie, author. Except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any format or by any means- digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise- or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden London WC2E 8LU, United Kingdom Copyright © 2015 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. Horace between Freedom and Slavery The First B ook of Epistles Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through the generous support and enduring vision of Warren G. She reads Horace’s reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any-a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic renown and friendships with the city’s elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace’s complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean. During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence.
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