Introduction
Stephen A. Harrison
The last major synoptic treatment of Horace’s whole poetic output was Eduard Fraenkel’s Horace (1957). A half-century later, the current Companion cannot hope to rival volume in substance, individuality and consistency vision, but its form twenty-four chapters by twenty-one different scholars reflects increased specialism diversity modern Horatian scholarship. vast variety topics studies is investigated detail more than one hundred items on poet now appearing annually according records L'Année Philologique, it arguably no longer possible for a single scholar command range arguments issues. Nor this exhaustively encyclopaedic, manner splendid Enciclopedia Oraziana (Mariotti 1996-8), perhaps most valuable product bimillennium death, which much reference made our individual chapters. This aims give lively survey state play first decade twenty-first century will be useful students other disciplines as well working field Horace.
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