"Dionysiac Poetics" and the Memory of Civil War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode

Andrew Feldherr

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389579.003.0014

"Dionysiac Poetics" and the Memory of Civil War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode

Andrew Feldherr

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Abstract

This chapter shows what can be done with civil war's painful and divisive legacy in a lyric poem. In brief, lyric holds out the promise of remediation, and Horace's Cleopatra ode (1.37), particularly in its exploitation of Dionysiac elements, offers a glimpse of community restored. With this examination of the productive engagement between an innovative poetic genre and the recent Roman experience of civil war, the chapter illustrates how poetry can shape society.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Citizens of Discord
Subtitle of host publication	Rome and Its Civil Wars
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199866496
ISBN (Print)	9780195389579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389579.003.0014
State	Published - Sep 1 2010

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General Arts and Humanities

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Civil war
Cleopatra ode
Horace
Poetics

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