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Author Putnam, Michael C. J., author.

Title Horace's Carmen saeculare : ritual magic and the poet's art / Michael C.J. Putnam
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Horatian Background -- Ch. 3. The Carmen Saeculare -- Ch. 4. Horatian Hymn and the Carmen Saeculare -- Ch. 5. Horace and the Hellenic Heritage -- Ch. 6. The Carmen Saeculare and Latin Poetry -- Ch. 7. The Carmen Seculare and Carmina
Summary "This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric by Horace that we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C.J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a public ritual."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index
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Subject Horace. Carmen saeculare.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Art patronage
Horace -- Political and social views
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Horace
SUBJECT Carmen saeculare (Horace) fast
Subject Political poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Rome
Ritual in literature.
Magic in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Art patronage
Literature
Magic in literature
Political and social views
Political poetry, Latin
Politics and literature
Ritual in literature
Carmen saeculare (Horatius)
Rome -- In literature
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300130454
0300130457