2. Catullus’ Basia Poems (5, 7, 48)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Prefatory Note v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contents ix
5. Catullus
6. 1. Catullus 1 1
7. 2. Catullus’ Basia Poems (5, 7, 48) 6
8. 3. Catullus 27 13
9. 4. Venusta Sirmio: Catullus 31 18
10. 5. Catullus 45: Text and Interpretation 36
11. 6. The Genre ‘Oaristys’ 47
12. 7. Catullus 45: The Wooing of Acme and Septimius 77
13. 8. Catullus 46.9–11 and Ancient ‘Etymologies’ 89
14. 9. The Nereids of Catullus 64.12–23b 93
15. 10. Catullus in and about Bithynia: Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47 99
16. Horace
17. 11. Horace Epode 2, Tibullus 1.1 and Rhetorical Praise of the Countryside 122
18. 12. “Weak Sheep” in Horace Epode 2.16 132
19. 13. Horace Epode 9: Some New Interpretations 136
20. 14. M. Antonius and Hannibal in Horace Epode 9 149
21. 15. The Genre Palinode and Three Horatian Examples. Epode 17; Odes 1.16; Odes 1.34 158
22. 16. Horace Odes 1.2 165
23. 17. M. Agrippa in Horace Odes 1.6 182
24. 18. Five “Religious” Odes of Horace (1.10; 1.21 and 4.6; 1.30; 1.15) 190
25. 19. Alcaeus’ Hymn to Hermes, P. Oxy. 2734 Fr. 1 and Horace Odes 1.10 207
26. 20. The Power of Implication Horace’s Invitation to Maecenas (Odes 1.20) 213
27. 21. Horace Odes 1.22 (and Odes 1.2.39): Juba II and the Mauri 244
28. 22. Horace on Other People’s Love Affairs (Odes 1.27; 2.4; 1.8; 3.12) 262
29. 23. The Philosophical Content of Horace Odes 1.29 284
30. 24. Horace’s First Roman Ode (3.1) 292
31. 25. Three Interpretational Problems in Horace Odes 3.1: saporem (19); cum famulis (36); sidere (42) 340
32. 26. Horace Odes 3.7: Elegy, Lyric, Myth, Learning, and Interpretation 350
33. 27. Splendide Mendax: Horace Odes 3.11 382
34. 28. Horace Odes 3.13 and 3.23 394
35. 29. Horace Odes 3.17 and the Genre Genethliakon 412
36. 30. Horace Odes 3.22: Genre and Sources 441
37. 31. Antestari and Horace Satires 1.9 462
38. Addenda and Corrigenda 471
39. Bibliography 473
40. Index Locorum 496
41. Index of Latin and Greek Words 509
42. General Index 511