After analyzing several key issues that link the Epodes and the Ibis - the word ibis, Archilochus fr. The long catalogue of mythological curses that comprises the bulk of the Ibis (paralleling the similar, smaller inventory at the end of Epode 17) threatens to throw the world into the chaos of myth, a hellish abyss that evokes Roman civil war through the figure of Remus, who appears in the closing lines (635-36 cp. He constructs the years between the Epodes and his Ibis as an interregnum devoid of Archilochean carnage and his angriest poem puts a menacing twist on his repeated pleas for imperial mercy. Ovid’s late-career move toward Archilochean iambos sets his Ibis as the apocalyptic antipode to Horace’s Epodes.
Dryden dismisses such poetry as ‘the Under-wood of Satire’ and does not deign to treat it on a par with the hexametric ‘Timber-trees’ of Roman satire, but I show that Ovid’s Ibis reacts to, even upends, Horace’s Epodes as part of a discourse about the rhetorical structure of society that goes well beyond the narrow confines of personal invective that Dryden scorned. As part of his proof, he discounts Horace’s Epodes and Ovid’s Ibis on the grounds that they represent an overly-narrow sub-category of satire that originated with Archilochus’ attacks on Lycambes. In his 1692 'Discourse on Satire', John Dryden sought to confirm Quintilian’s opinion that Roman satire was purely Roman. The reassertion of these qualities is both enacted by the poem’s practice and reified in its literalized imagery. Catullus 56 can be seen as a response addressed, not to Cato the prude, but to Cato the iambist, reasserting the importance of “licentiousness” and “childishness” to the art of being Archilochus properly.
Such a selective form of imitation would situate Cato within a long tradition of modified iambos, suppressing aspects which were perceived as being distinctively Archilochean (or Hipponactean) but nevertheless undesirable on aesthetic, ethical or social grounds.
Porcius Cato, when jilted by Lepida, wrote iamboi against his successful rival, Metellus Scipio, “making use of the bitterness of Archilochus, but rejecting his licentiousness and childishness”. 168 West, which Cato is being addressed, what precisely is being done by the pupulus either of or to the puella, and why Catullus emphasizes the anecdote’s laughability. This article proposes a unified solution to four of the five puzzles about Catullus 56: why it alludes to Archilochus fr.
0 kommentar(er)
