And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon

This book explores, for the first time, the influence of Anacreon and the Anacreontic tradition on Horace''s Odes and Epodes. It focuses first on the original fragments of Anacreon and their reception in Horace, paying attention to the central themes of wine, love, and satire.In a second part, the possibility of conscious Horatian reception of the earliest Carmina Anacreontea (and the broader Anac...