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Lectures on Horace's Epistles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Don Fowler†
Don Fowler†
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Jesus College, Oxford
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Lecture one: Reading Horace, or L'homme et l'oeuvre

All criticism is also biography: and telling a story about a text is also telling a story about oneself. This is particularly true of Horace. When one writes about Horace, one is constructing a Horace, making the man: and constructing a Horace is inevitably also constructing oneself. Consider for example, Colin Macleod, whose last graduate class before his suicide was on Horace's Epistles, and who wrote extensively on Horace. Macleod's Horace was complex, often contradictory, morally serious – which fits Macleod of course.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 54 , 2008 , pp. 80 - 114
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 2008

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