VII Receptions of Horace
The study of classical reception, the influence texts and culture in later times works, has been one biggest growth areas scholarship twenty-first century. There considerable discussion how reception is to be defined: for some orientation see Hardwick 2003, Martindale Thomas 2006, Stray 2008. Most would now view it as a kind dialogue between original(s) work(s) which use, appropriate, or modify original(s), emphasize need understand both cultural contexts well remembering our own situatedness. When we look at, say, Ben Jonson's Horace there are three involved: ourselves period culture, Jonson his, effect reading Horace. In sense, all that scholars do form they always inevitably receiving particular light their characteristics, whether not articulate this explicitly. One strand connected with translation: translation never neutral rendering text but necessarily coloured by ideology translator. Another literary imitation adaptation: works can very effectively recast new context. As shall see, richly received these ways, others.
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