HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1

Front matter

Leendert Weeda Horace’s Sermones Book1 Credentials For Maecenas

Leendert Weeda

HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements — VII

1.1 1.2 12.1 1.2.2

3.1 3.2 3.3

Introduction to the Chapter — 32

Sermones 1.1 and 1.2: The Cynical Ways of the Aristocracy and the Nouveau Riche —— 47

Sermones 1.3 and 1.4: From Censuring the Elite and the Nouveau Riche to a Serious Conversation with Friends — 73

Sermones 1.5 and 1.6: Horace’s Credentials for Maecenas Continued:

A Journey to Brundisium; Youth and Education in Venusia and Rome — 126

Sermones 1.7 and 1.8: Threats from the East: Parthia and Egypt — 166 Sermones 1.9 and 1.10: Maecenas’ Circle: No Place for Nouveau Riche. Horace’s Literary Programme for Several Genres; the Literary Schools Revisited — 190

Summary of Sermones Book 1: Horace’s Credentials Containing Political Commentary; Virgil’s Eclogae and Horace’s Sermones Book 1 Compared — 231