The Cambridge companion to Horace

Introduction Stephen Harrison Part I. Orientations: 1. Horace: life and chronology Robin Nisbet 2. Horatian self-representations Stephen Harrison 3. Horace and archaic Greek poetry Gregory Hutchinson 4. Horace and Hellenistic poetry Richard Thomas 5. Horace and Roman literary history Richard Tarrant 6. Horace and Augustus Michele Lowrie Part II. Poetic Genres: 7. The Epodes: Horace's Archilochus? Lindsay Watson 8. The Satires Frances Muecke 9. The Epistles Rolando Ferri 10. The Ars Poetica Andrew Laird 11. Carmina: Odes and Carmen Saeculare Alessandro Barchiesi Part III. Poetic Themes: 12. Philosophy and ethics John Moles 13. Gods and religion Jasper Griffin 14. Friendship, patronage and Horatian sociopoetics Peter White 15. Wine and the symposium Gregson Davis 16. Erotics and gender Ellen Oliensis 17. Town and country Stephen Harrison 18. Poetics and literary criticism Richard Rutherford 19. Style and poetic texture Stephen Harrison Part IV. Receptions: 20. Ancient receptions of Horace Richard Tarrant 21. The reception of Horace in the Middle Ages Karsten Friis-Jensen 22. The reception of Horace in the Renaissance Michael McGann 23. The reception of Horace in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries David Money 24. The reception of Horace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Stephen Harrison Dateline for works and major political events.