Philosophy and Poetics in Horace's Odes 1.34 and 2.2

Professor Kenneth Draper (Indiana University, Bloomington) will present research from his current book project, Non-Lyric Voices in Horace’s Odes: The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration. Professor Draper shows how Horace makes inventive and productive use of philosophy within his first lyric collection, and discusses the subtle deployment of philosophy within lyric as, in part, a means of reintegrating the social sphere at Rome in the wake of civil war. In addition to work on Horace, Professor Draper has published on Virgil’s Aeneid, the Thebaid of Statius, and the reception of Augustan poets in later periods, including Virgil and Ovid in Ausonius (4th century CE) and the role that Virgil and Horace played as models for translators in 17th century England.