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Horace is keenly aware of how different his situation in history and society is from that of his Greek lyric predecessors, and he never engages in comparing himself directly with any of his models, even though this kind of comparison (‘synkrisis’) was a very common mode of criticism in his day. This sensitivity to the importance of historical situatedness is something that Horace owes to the literary history of Cicero, above all in the Brutus.
A number of modern scholars have claimed that the only valid literary critical models for reading ancient literature are those of the ancients themselves. Against this position, the chapter argues that ancient literary criticism is not sufficient for modern analysis of ancient literature, and that there is always a gap between a literary work and any criticism brought to bear on it.
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