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Horace’s Ode 1.12 : subterranean lyrics
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Giusti, Elena (2022) Horace’s Ode 1.12 : subterranean lyrics. American Journal of Philology, 143 (1). pp. 75-107. ISSN 0002-9475.
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Official URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/855060
Abstract
Horace's Ode 1.12 is commonly thought to be alluding to the wedding between Augustus' nephew C. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus' daughter Julia in 25 B.C.E., but there are equally good poetic reasons for reading the poem instead as alluding to the young Marcellus' demise in the last quarter of 23 B.C.E. and to see it in direct dialogue with the epicedia for Marcellus composed by Virgil and Propertius. The present paper reviews the evidence for either dating and proposes that the poem actively resists and at the same time engenders historicist interpretations by virtue of lyric's ability to create its own historical temporalities. As a poem touching upon the thorny issue of the acceptability of imperial succession in a period when Augustus' life was in danger, Ode 1.12 can be read as actively engaged in a hermeneutic "conspiratorial" game with its readers, prompting them to question or imagine allusions to contemporary events at a time of utmost political instability.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Journal of Philology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0002-9475 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 143 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 75-107 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article appeared in the American Journal of Philology, Volume 143, Issue 1, 2022, pages 75-107, Copyright ©2022, Johns Hopkins University Press. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 August 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 November 2021 | ||||||||
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