Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. List of Figures XVII
6. Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον 1
7. Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
8. Three Homeric Puzzles 9
9. Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 27
10. Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again 51
11. Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited 67
12. Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG 105
13. Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 123
14. Singing into Being 139
15. The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 155
16. Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar 175
17. The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus 181
18. How Real is Sympotic Prayer? 199
19. Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) 215
20. Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) 251
21. Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 263
22. A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus 275
23. Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum 291
24. Part II: Greek Drama
25. The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device 313
26. Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress 329
27. Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache 351
28. Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache 381
29. Happy Citizens in Euripides 399
30. “What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes 411
31. Part III: Greek Prose
32. Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature 427
33. The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece 445
34. Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias 471
35. On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others 493
36. A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) 509
37. The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach 521
38. “Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia 539
39. “Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς 559
40. Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis 577
41. Polybian Temporalities 595
42. A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch 611
43. Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch 627
44. Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic 647
45. What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian 661
46. A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee 671
47. Part IV: Latin Literature
48. The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina 709
49. Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? 727
50. The Poetics of the Roman Triumph 745
51. Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic 763
52. The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 779
53. Epilogue
54. An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society 797
55. List of Contributors 799
56. General Index 807