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III Early works: Satires 1 and 2, Epodes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2014
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This first phase of Horace's poetic career has aroused extensive interest in recent scholarship, which has moved beyond the traditional teleological idea (crystallized by Fraenkel and others) that the Satires and Epodes are early experimental works in which the poet had not yet reached his highest level, to be achieved in the mature lyric glories of the Odes and the sage reflections of the Epistles. This is a crucial period in Horace's career, and some key features emerge which will be central for his poetry. In this chapter I will look at the two books of Satires and that of the Epodes, considering each collection in turn, with a focus on important issues and scholarship.
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1 There is no extensive treatment of the first phase of Horace's literary career to match that of Becker 1963 on his last, but Griffin 1993 provides some useful indications.
2 Schlegel 2005: 6.
3 See Pelling 1996: 25–6.
4 See Gowers 2002.
5 DuQuesnay 1984.
6 Henderson 1998: 73–107.
7 Henderson 1999: 202–27.
8 E.g. Gowers 1993a; Cucchiarelli 2001:15–55; Harrison 2007b: 86–93.
9 For an effective summary, see Gowers 2012: 22–4.
10 See Freudenburg 1993: 19.
11 For details on Horatian interaction in the Satires with poetic genres, see Harrison 2007b: 75–103; on interaction with historiography, see Woodman 2009.
12 For recent contributions to its study see Oliensis 1998: 46–51; Bowditch 2001:142–54; Cucchiarelli 2001: 162–8.
13 See Muecke 1995; McGinn 2001.
14 Along these lines, see also Freudenburg 1995; Caston 1997; Marchesi 2005.
15 On the latter's links with the Epodes, see especially Heyworth 1993.
16 Watson 1995. The possible phallic pun on the poet's name ‘floppy’ at 15.12, nam si quid in Flacco uiri est (‘if there is anything of a man in Flaccus/floppy’), has been popular here: see Fitzgerald 1988; Oliensis 1991; contested by Watson 2003.
17 See the details in Watson 2003 and elaborations in Harrison 2007b.
18 See Watson 2003: 486–8; Harrison 2007b: 132–4.
19 See above, Chapter 2, n. 55.
20 See Ableitinger-Grünberger 1971.
21 E.g. Kyriakidis and Di Martino 2004.
22 See Watson 2003: 43–5.
23 Harrison 2007b: 104–35.
24 See Grassmann 1966; Richlin 1992: 109–13; Henderson 1999: 173–201.
25 Fitzgerald 1988; Oliensis 1991, 1998: 64–101.
26 Nisbet 1984.
27 Oliensis 1991.
28 Watson 2003.
29 Oliensis 1998: 64–101.