Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire

ISBN-13: 9780198786559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Sergio Yona

Opis

Horace's Satires owe debts of influence to a wide range of genres and authors, including, as this study demonstrates, the moral tradition of Epicureanism. Focusing on the philosopher Philodemus of Gadara, it argues that the central concerns of his work lie at the heart of the poet's criticisms of Roman society and its shortcomings.

Recenzje

Sergio Yona has in this attractively presented and well-argued book given us a highly charged and concentrated account of Philodemus and Horace which breaks new ground and will inspire further research into this poetry.

O autorze

Sergio Yona is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri and received his PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include the reception of Greek philosophy in Rome, Augustan and Early Christian poetry, and textual criticism, and he has published articles on Plato, Vergil, and Epicureanism in Horace. He lives with his wife and six children in Columbia, MO.