Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2021
Horace was very self-conscious about his relationship with the nine canonical Greek lyric poets, and in his Odes he devoted a lot of attention to charting what he did and did not share with them. He is at once drawn to them as models and conscious of how distant he is from them in time and in his social setting, which was very different from theirs. Although he shares many important themes with them, he highlights how original he is in his depictions of the Italian landscape and of the Roman systems of organising time.
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