horace poems - content

Question 1

use of alcaic meter

Answer 1

1-6, 17, 21, 23, 26, 29

Question 2

use of sapphic meter

Answer 2

8, 11, 14, 18, 20, 22, 27

Question 3

various forms of asclepiad usage

Answer 3

7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 19, 24, 25, 28, 30

Question 4

usage of ionic meter

Answer 4

ionic metron = u u - - (repeated 10 times)

only used in odes 3.12

Question 5

horace odes 3.1

Answer 5

asks the muses to keep away the vulger crowds - sets out the themes of his poems to follow

renounces epic themes and says he will sing about young men and women instead - not wanting to writer epic in his modern style

Question 6

horace odes 3.2

Answer 6

talks about the virtue of military service for boys - of war and danger etc

speaks briefly in the voice of a tyrant’s (who rome are fighting against) wife / daughter about desire and inexperience

says it is a good thing to die for your country if he is brave and not a coward but also says that virtue does not like war or partake

Question 7

horace odes 3.3

Answer 7

in which ovid talks about how a man who is strong in his virtuous convictions will never be wrong

speaks in the voice of juno at a council of the gods demanding that rome take over all the world but that troy never rise again and be forgotten - warns that if troy would rise again it would bring vice and evil

Question 8

horace odes 3.4

Answer 8

reinvokes calliope

quite a pastoral idyll - talks about walking through the groves of the muses

references contemporary political events slightly

talks about being led towards battles and epic and roman conquest

‘power without wisdom falls by its own weight’

calls monsters and mythological figures to bear witness to his statement

Question 9

horace odes 3.5

Answer 9

discusses augustus’ conquests and expansion of empire

discusses times when people have had to suffer because they surrendered - says we should never surrender

that when one surrenders they can never be brave again

Question 10

horace odes 3.6

Answer 10

tells the romans to restore the temples and to not neglect the gods as their fathers did

talks about various defeats of the romans

lists all the moral depravity of current rome - it’s greekness, luxury, evil etc

looks back to when men were real men and worked the fields etc

Question 11

horace odes 3.7