Horace "Carmen" 1.30: Glycera's Problem

Traill, David A.

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“…; uocantis, 2, transfer, 4); Glycera invoked Venus with multo...ture (3), Horace, that uir Mercurialis, 9 pours nouum...liquor em, and prays Leto's son Apollo to grant him full use of his mental faculties, and nee turpem senectam (1.31.2f., 18f., dones...). 10 Corvinus is the expert on both ethical philosophising after Socrates and on wine, for him the same inspirational subject: wine empowers, for example, the pauperil...neque iratos trementil regum apices neque militum arma (3. 21.…”

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“…107 We should not think to distinguish too decisively between the dangerous boar whose periodic incursions on the farmland ruin the crops and some smooth, bland, anachronistic pink pigmentation. 108 Rather, the under-determined private offering of a pig to all but any deity 109 pins itself only to the code of gender-relations-prohibited as sacrifice to Aphrodite} 10 and diacritically stamped male both by lore and by language: e.g. the ass won't touch the feed left after the butchery quidam immolasset uerrem cum sancto HerculiJ cui pro salute uotum debebat .$Ka...(Phaedr.…”

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Horace, Odes 3.22, and the Life of Meaning: Stumbling and Stampeding Out of the Woods, Blinking and Screaming into the Light, Snorting and Gorging at the Trough, Slashing and Gouging at the Death

Henderson

1995

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Now scientists in Cambridge are developing pigs with human genes which could provide a limitless supply of organs for transplant.(Radio Times, 1st March 1995)Latin scholarship through the years did not exactly splash out on this pig's whisper of acarmen, 3.22. Stunted notices regularly saw it off as ‘a traditional invocation’—just a coda and confirmation for 3.21—and it is securely penned into the Hellenistic dedicatory ‘Epigrammstypus’. Yet the poet has indeed set t/his tree off against the poetic wood that lines thecontinui montesofOdes I-III. In that company, the poem primes a cultural reading by framing theinterpretivityof its performance against all the other scenarios. As arecurrent eventin Roman pedagogy and classical reading-culture to this very moment (these very moments), it pushes us to enactreligioas a modality of agent self, mobilised within the social imaginary of formative environment and temporality, and modelling a contribution to the formation of that sociality. The challenge to Horace, as to other ancient magi and musers such as Cicero, Varro and Augustine, is notnotthe same that faces modern gurus and pundits writing Roman religion: butpoetryconscripts its readers for its project, animating the Roman religion it re-invents and activates, obliges the doing and the showing and the telling to fuse in the enthusing, three-in-one.

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