By Martin Stöckinger,Kathrin Winter,Andreas T. Zanker
This quantity units out to discover the complicated courting among Horace and Seneca. it's the first booklet that examines the interface among those diversified and but hugely similar authors with attention in their œuvres of their entirety. The fourteen chapters accrued the following discover a variety of themes clustered round the following 4 subject matters: the combo of literature and philosophy; the ways that Seneca’s choral odes transform Horatian fabric and circulation past it; the remedy of moral, poetic, and aesthetic questions by means of the 2 authors; and the matter of literary impression and reception in addition to historical and smooth reflections on those difficulties. whereas the intertextual contacts among Horace and Seneca themselves lie on the middle of this venture, it additionally considers the sooner texts that function assets for either authors, middleman steps in Roman literature, and later texts the place connections among the 2 philosopher-poets are drawn. even if no longer as evidently palpable because the linkage among authors who percentage a standard wide-spread culture, this asymmetric yet pervasive dating should be considered as some of the most prolific literary interactions among the early Augustan and the Neronian classes. A bidirectional record of correspondences among Horace and Seneca concludes the quantity.
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