by Horace
Chrysippus (c. 280–207 BC) was converted to Stoicism by Cleanthes and succeeded him as Head of the school. He was a vigorous apologist and a formidable logician.
Select Bibliography
GENERAL
Anderson, W. S., Essays on Roman Satire, Princeton, 1982
Braund, S. H., Roman Verse Satire, Greece and Rome Survey, Oxford, 1992
Coffey, M., Roman Satire, second edition, Bristol, 1989
Rudd, N., Themes in Roman Satire, London, 1986
Van Rooy, C. A., Studies in Classical Satire, Leiden, 1965
LUCILIUS
Texts and Commentaries
Krenkel, W., Lucilius, Satiren, Berlin, 1970
Marx, F., c. Lucilii Carminum Reliquiae, Lipsiae, 1904–5, reprinted 1963
Translation
Warmington, E. H., Remains of Old Latin, volume 3, Loeb Classical Library, 1957
Background
Astin, A. E., Scipio Aemilianus, Oxford, 1967
Gruen, E. S., Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome, Ithaca, 1992
Interpretation
Cambridge History of Classical Literature, volume 2, Cambridge, 1982, chapter 7
HORACE
Texts and Commentaries
Brink, C. O., Horace on Poetry: The ‘Ars Poetica’, Cambridge, 1971
Horace on Poetry: Epistles, Book II, Cambridge, 1982
Brown, P. M., Horace, Satires I, Warminster, 1993 (with translation)
Kiessling, A. and Heinze, R., Q. Horatius Flaccus, Satiren, sixth edition, Leipzig, 1921
Lejay, P., Oeuvres d’Horace. Satires, Paris, 1911
Mayer, R., Horace, Epistles I, Cambridge, 1994
Muecke, F., Horace, Satires II, Warminster, 1993 (with translation)
Rudd, N., Horace, Epistles II and Ars Poetica, Cambridge, 1989
Shackleton Bailey, D. R., Horatius, Opera, Stutgardiae, 2001
Translations
Fairclough, H. R., Horace, Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica, Loeb Classical Library, 1929
MacLeod, C., Horace, Epistles, Roma, 1986
Background
Millar, F. and Segal, E. (ed.), Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects, Oxford, 1984
Cambridge Ancient History, second edition, volume 10, chapters 1–4
Interpretations
Brink, C. O., Horace on Poetry, Cambridge 1963, 156–77
Costa, C. D. N. (ed.), Horace, London, 1973, chapters 3, 4 and 5
Fraenkel, E., Horace, Oxford, 1957
Freudenburg, K., The Walking Muse, Princeton, 1993
Gowers, E., The Loaded Table, Oxford, 1993, chapter 3
Kilpatrick, R. S., The Poetry of Friendship: Horace, Epistles I, Edmonton, 1986
The Poetry of Criticism: Horace, Epistles II, Edmonton, 1989
Lyne, R. O. A. M., Horace: Behind the Public Poetry, New Haven and London, 1995
MacLeod, C., ‘The Poetry of Ethics: Horace, Epistles I,’ Collected Essays, Oxford, 1981
Rudd, N., The Satires of Horace, Cambridge, 1966
(ed.) Horace 2000, London, 1993, chapters 1, 2 and 4
Shackleton Bailey, D. R., Profile of Horace, London, 1982
Stack, F., Pope and Horace, Cambridge, 1985
Williams, G. W., Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry, Oxford, 1968
Woodman, T and West, D. (ed.) Quality and Pleasure, Cambridge, 1974, chapter 5
Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus, Cambridge, 1984, chapter 2
PERSIUS
Texts and Commentaries
Clausen, W. V., A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuvenalis Saturae, second edition, Oxonii, 1992
Harvey, R. A., A Commentary on Persius, Leiden, 1981
Jenkinson, J. R., Persius. The Satires, Warminster, 1980 (with translation)
Lee, G. and Barr, W., The Satires of Persius, Liverpool, 1987 (with translation)
Translation
Ramsay, G. G., Juvenal and Persius, Loeb Classical Library, 1918; now replaced by S. M. Braund, 2004
Background
Griffin, M. T., Nero, The End of a Dynasty, New Haven and London, 1984
Rudich, V., Political Dissidence under Nero, London and New York, 1993
Interpretations
Bramble, J. C., Persius and the Programmatic Satire, Cambridge, 1974
Morford, M., Persius, Boston, 1984
Rudd, N., Lines of Enquiry, Cambridge, 1976, chapter 3
Sullivan, J. P. (ed.), Critical Essays on Roman Literature. Satire, London, 1963, chapter 2
Literature and Politics in the Reign of Nero, Ithaca and London, 1985, chapter 2
N.B. For further bibliography (including periodical literature) see Braund’s Survey (under General, above).
Index of the More Important Names and Topics
Numbers in brackets indicate that the persons are referred to, but not named, in the text.
Notes are indicated only when they contain a reference which is independent of the text. When they comment directly on the text they can be found by means of the appropriate line number.
Accius, 37, 109, 128, 140
Achilles, 30, 52, (80), 116, 124, 193
Adultery, 8–11, 19, 68–9
Aeschylus, 112, 128, 172
Aesop, xi, 174, 195
Agamemnon, (52), (80), 173–4
Agave, 55
Agrippa, 52
Albius Tibullus, 83
Alcaeus, 106, 118
Alcibiades, 148
Alexander, 114
Alpman, 36
Ambition, 25–9, 51–3, 86, 155–6
Amphion, 103, 130
Anthony, Mark, xviii, 20, 23
Apollo, 35, 61, 82, 99, (113), 130
Archilochus, xi, 46, 106, 123
Aristarchus, 133
Aristippus, 49, 77, 101, 185
Aristophanes, xi, 16, 141
Aristotle, 160, 163, 175
Atreus, 52, 126, 203
Attis, xxvii, 140–1
Attius Labeo, 138, 139
Augustus, xvii–xviii, xxiii, 82, 94–5, 99, 108, 116, 183, 185, 186: see also Caesar, Octavian
Balatro, 70–3
Bassus, Caesius, xxv, 156
Bion, 117
Birth, 25–9, 107
Brutus, 30, 152
Bruty, 97, 157
Caesar, Julius, (ii), 29, 33
Caesar, Octavian (later Augustus), 11, 39, 40, 42, (61), 64, 84, 94, 94–5, (104), (106), 108, 116, 171, 172, (ii42)
Caligula, 157
Callimachus, 118, 161, 191, 195
Calvus, 35
Canidia, 31–2, 41, 73
Catius, 56–9
Cato, the Censor, 8, 118, 122
Cato, Uticensis, xxvi, 105, 146
Catullus, xxviii, 35
Celsus Albinovanus, 82, 90
Choerilus, 114, 129
Chrysippus, 15, 47, 55, 80, 158
Cicirrus, Messius, 23
City life, 29, 63–6, 91, 95–6, 117
Cleanthes, 152, 208
Clientship, 25–9, 33–8, 64, 87–9, 100–5
Comedy, New, 17–18, 36, 54, 109, 112–13, 123, 155
Comedy, Old, 16, 128, 140–1
Cornutus, xi, xxv–xxvii, 150–2
Country life, 45–6, 63–6, 91, 95–6, 98, 105
Craterus, 51, 146
Cratinus, 16, 105, 141
Crispinus, 7, 15, 16, 68, 154
Damasippus, 46–56
Davus, 66–70
Decadence, 137–42
Demetrius, 37–8
Democritus, 94, 113, 129, 181
Diomedes, 24, 30, 125
Discontent, 3, 6, 7, 69–70, 79–80, 90, 93, 95–6
Empedocles, 94, 133
Ennius, xi, 37, 105, 109, 122, 128, 156, 160, 163, 170, 195
Epicurus, 83, 161, 181, 203
Eupolis, 16, 46, 141
Euripides, 174, 185, 186, 193
Extravagance, 6, 7, 51–4
Fannius, 17, 37
Father, Horace’s, 19–20, 25, 27–8, 107
Florus, Julius, 82, 115
Fox, fable of, 88
Frog, fable of, 56
Fundanius, 36, 70–3
Furius, 61: see also Alpman
Fuscus, Aristius, 34, 37, 91
Gastronomy, 42–4, 56–9, 71–3
Gluttony, 42–6, 69–73, 86, 97, 147
Grab-All, 31, 40
Greed, 4–7, 7–8, 49–51, 78, 85, 154
Helicon, 114, 129, 137, 150
Hercules, 63, 77, (108), 142
Hermogenes: see Tigellius
Homer, 36, (59–63), 80, 105, 109, 123, 130, 156, (167), 168, (175), (179), (182), (185), (191), 195, 196
Horace, xi, xv–xxiv, 10–11, 13, 19–20, 20–5, 25–9, 32–5, 36–8, 39–42, 46, 55–6, 63–6, 66–70, 77–107 passim, 120, 141
Hospitality, 84
Imperturbability, 85
Inconsistency, 11–12, 67, 77, 83, 97
Janus, 63, 78, 99, 107, 114, 139
Journey, to Brindisi, 20–5
Juvenal, xi, xiv, xviii, 182
King, Rupilius, 29–30
Legacy-hunting, 59–63
Literary criticism, 16–20, 35–8, 39–42, 105–6, 108–15, 118, 121–33
Livius Andronicus, x, 109–11, 190
Livy, x, 181, 197
Lollius, 80, 102
Lucan, xxv, xxvii
Lucilius, xi–xv, xv–xvi, xxi, xxvi, 16–20, 35–8, 39–42, 141, 166, 172, 199
Lucretius, xi, 165
Lucullus, 86, 116
Lupus, 41, 141
Macrinus, 142
Madness, 46–56
Maecenas, xvii, 3, 13, 22, 25–7, 30, 33–4, 37, 55, 63, 64, 67, 70, 71, 77, 87, 105, 204
Martial, xxv
Menander, 46, 109, 205
Menelaus, 52, 182
Mercury, (47), (48), (63), 143, 158
Messalla, 27, (36), 37, 144
Mice, fable of, 65–6
Midas, xxvii, 200
Mimnermus, 86, 118
Mucius, 117, 141
Naevius, the poet, x–xi, 109, 190
Names, in Horace’s Satires, xvii
Nasidienus, 70–3
Neoptolemus, xxiv
Nero, xxvi–xxvii
Nomentanus, 6, 31, 40, 51, 53, 70–2
Numa, 85, 110, 128, 143
Ofellus, 42–6
Orestes, 50, 123, 148
Ovid, xi, xxviii, 198, 203
Pacuvius,xi, 109, 140, 173, 186
Paetus, Thrasea, xxvi
Patronage, 100–5, 114: see also Maecenas
Persius, the half-breed, 29–30
Persius, the poet, xi, xiv, xxv–xxx, 137, 144, 150–1, 156
Pest, the, 32–5
Petronius, xi, 176
Philippus, 88–9
Philodemus, 10
Pisos, the, 121, 127, 194
Plato, 46, 56, 191
Plautus, xi, 109, 112, 122
Plotius, 23, 37
Pollio, 36, 37
Pope, xxii–xxiii, xxxi, 7
Prayers, 55, 142–4
Priapus, 30–2
Propertius, 191, 195
Pythagoras, 56, 65, 109, 156, 181
Quintilian, xi, xxiii, xxv, 199
Sappho, 106
Sarmentus, 23
Satura, before Horace, ix–xv
Scipio, 40, 199
Seneca, xi, xxvii, xxviii
Septimius, 90
Servitude, 66–70, 152–6
Sex, 7–11, 53–4, 68–9, 86, 155
Socrates, (56), 129, 148, 151
Stertinius, 47–55, 94
Stoicism, xxviii–xxix, 11, 14–15, 46–56, 66–70, 80–2, 91, 98–100, 181
Suetonius, xxiii, xxvii, 199
Superstition, 55, 120, 142–3, 155
Tacitus, xi, xxvii
Tarentum, 28, 57, 88, 98, 113
Tarpa, 36, 131
Terence, 8, 109, 174
Tiberius, xxiii, (82), 182–3
Tigellius, Hermogenes, 15, 18, 33, 35, 37
Tigellius, the Sardinian, 7, 11
Tiresias, 59–63
Tolerance, 11–15
Translations, xxx–xxxiii
Trebatius, 39–42
Ulysses, 52, 59–63, 80, 86, 88, (125)
Varius, xvii, 23, 24, 27, 33, 36, 37, 70, 71, 72, 114, 122, 185,
Varro, x, xi, xiv
Varro of Atax, 36
Vibidius, 70–3
Virgil, xv, xvii, 23, 27, 36, 37, 114, 122, (141), 162
Viscus, 33, 37, 70, 71
Witchcraft, 31–2