Perceptions of Horace

L. B. T. Houghton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. He has contributed articles, notes and reviews to many classical journals, and contributed chapters to volumes on Ennius, the Renaissance, and memory and mourning in Ancient Rome. Maria Wyke is Professor (and Chair) of Latin at University College London. Previous books include The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations (2002), Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History (1997) and Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (2007).

• Introduction: a Roman poet and his readers L. B. T. Houghton and Maria Wyke; 1. Becoming an authority: Horace on his own reception Denis Feeney; 2. The ends of the beginning: Horace, Satires 1 Emily Gowers; 3. Horace's Bacchic poetics Alessandro Schiesaro; 4. Horace: critics, canons and canonicity J. S. C. Eidinow; 5. Laying down the law: Horace's reflection in his sententiae Martin Dinter; 6. Social status and the authorial personae of Horace and Vitruvius Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols; 7. Writing to the emperor: Horace's presence in Ovid's Tristia 2 Jennifer Ingleheart; 8. Horace, Suetonius, and the Lives of the Greek poets Barbara Graziosi; 9. Two letters to Horace: Petrarch and Andrew Lang L. B. T. Houghton; 10. Horace and learned ladies Jane Stevenson; 11. Vivere secundum Horatium: Otto Vaenius' Emblemata Horatiana Roland Mayer; 12. The poet's voice: allusive dialogue in Ben Jonson's Horatian poetry V. A. Moul; 13. Theme and variation: Horace in Pope's correspondence Niall Rudd; 14. Appropriating Horace in eighteenth-century France Russell Goulbourne; 15. Horace and eighteenth-century commentary Penelope Wilson; 16. Horace and the Victorians Stephen Harrison; 17. A late flowering of English Alcaics John Talbot.