Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes

by Ronnie Ancona

In Horace's Odes love cannot last. Is the poet unromantic, as some critics claim? Is he merely realistic? Or is he, as Ronnie Ancona contends, relating the erotic to time in a more complex and interesting way than either of these positions allows? Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal that love conquers time and the notion that he succeeds becauses he eschews illusions about love's ability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822314762
• ISBN13: 9780822314769
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"