The Names in Horace's Satires

Abstract

The methods of assessing a writer's spirit vary in usefulness according to his genre. If he is a satirist much may often be learned through an examination of his names. This is certainly true of Horace, and one might have thought that in recent years a fair amount of attention would have been paid to this aspect of his work. Yet to the best of my knowledge no special study has been published in the present century. Certain points have been well noted by scholars like Vogel, Becher, and Marouzeau, and a few editions contain summaries of the material. The last detailed discussion, however, was that of Cartault, and one must admit that it was not wholly unbiased. So it seems reasonable to review the evidence again, making use of the work done by Marx, Cichorius, Münzer, and others. We do not have to inquire about all the characters in the Sermones; only satirical references need be considered, and even here there is room for selection, because some of the figures are so obscure that nothing helpful can be said about them.

La Vita Sallustii de Asconio (frg. 3 GRFM): un fantasma literario

“…epist. 1, 19, 48 ludus… genuit… iram).33 La contradicción la hacen notar, por ejemplo,Rudd (1960: 163 n. 2) ySyme (1964: 281). Como apuntaremos más adelante, hay quien sugiere que esa contradicción es buscada por Horacio y aprovechada con fines cómicos.34 En cambio, un hipotético texto que sustituya qui por cum (Sallustius in quas non minus insanit quam cum moechatur «por las que Salustio se vuelve igual de loco que cuando comete adulterio») sí permitiría lanzar esa acusación, pero esa intervención textual no ha sido propuesta ni parece necesaria en el contexto.…”

Play on the Proper Names of Individuals in the Catullan Corpus: Wordplay, the Iambic Tradition, and the Late Republican Culture of Public Abuse

“… 11 cf. the categories into which Rudd 1960: 161–2 divides named individuals in Horace's Satires. For significant names in Catullus’ Roman predecessors, see e.g.…”

“… 14 Rudd 1960: 168, commenting on names within Horace's Satires ; Rudd 1960 views the satiric genre as an important factor in Horace's choice of significant names for ‘type’ characters (a genre-based approach of obvious relevance for the current study).…”