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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome

Michele Lowrie

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780199545674

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545674.001.0001

De‐ and Re‐contextualization

Horace, Epistles 1. 19

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(p. 251 ) 10 De‐ and Re‐contextualization
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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome
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Michèle Lowrie (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545674.003.0010

Recitation had become a strong venue for poets to reach a public in Augustan Rome. Horace, however, resists this medium on the grounds that it exposed a poet to the exigencies of the rat race. Epistles 1. 19 analyzes its own poet's hypocrisy in wanting to avoid social climbing while reserving his poetry for Augustus' ears.

Keywords:   Horace, Epistles 1. 19, recitation, rat race, Augustus

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