horace poems - content Flashcards

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horace odes 3.21

Answer 1

addresses the wine jar all the contradictions of wine - laughter or moans, love or quarrels etc all is worthy of a special day - orders it to be emptied describes Corvinus wanting less strong wine, in socratic dialogue even old carp was warmed by good wine ‘you apply gentle torture to dull wits’ - all of the things wine uncovers addresses bacchus and venus and the graces

Answer 2

ode to diana contrasts her p[rotecting of mountains, wildness and young girls with childbirth offers blood of a boar to the pine-tree above his farm

Answer 3

addresses Phidyle, his country girl tells her if she makes offering and prayers and sacrifices - her crops and flock will not be destroyed by the elements/disease if the destined victims blood will stain the priests axes with blood - no need to try and influence the gods through repeated sacrifices of sheep if pure hands touch altar - even if the sacrifice is small - Penates will be satisfied

Answer 4

says eastern wealth cannot save you from death better to live like Scythians - who move about with no permanence and limited possessions women raise orphaned children - selflessness and wives do not rule their husbands sin is punished with death, and their dowry is their parent’s virtue and their chastity says that rome by contrast hates virtue - that whoever wants to be city father should win fame in posterity what use are laws without the behaviour to accompany them poverty should not be disgrace, we should not be guided away from virtue by wealth send jewels and riches to the capitol or into the sea to repent for evil young boys are better at games than at hunt or saddle - they want money through card and dice games money may increase but will never be complete

Answer 5

asks where bacchus is taking him now that he is full of ‘you’ (as in wine - bacchus) bacillus imagery of caves and groves as potential answers will sing of Caesar’s glory and a new achievement not yet sung addresses a bacchante - stand in amazement at mountain ridges in thrace - shining sniow, trodden by barbarous feet wanders gazing at nature Bacchus addressed again - says he will sing of nothing trivial addresses Lenaeus - following a god is a sweet danger wit ha wreathe of vines

Answer 6

he is putting aside love affairs, dedicates his ‘weapons’ (like his lyre) to Venus asks venus to punish chloe who he blames for why he is done with the world of love

Answer 7

asks that the wicked bye lead by bad omens (she-wolves, pregnant dogs, screeching owls) calls ominous ravens - prays for the one he is fearful for addresses galatea - to be happy and think of him - but can see a storm coming let wives and children of their enemies feel the blinding wind etc as europa trusted jupiter as a bull but was scared when she saw the monsters at sea left the meadows behind and now sees nothing but stars and water reaches crete and cries out to her dad - direct speech asks what she has doen, no longer fit to be called daughter, one death too few for her virgin sin - wonders if she is being sent a false dream from ivory gates - better to pick flowers than travel the seas wants to hurt the bull she once loved shameless - abandoned country’s gods, wants to walk with lions Europa imagines what her father would say - calls herself throug him worthless and tells her to kill herself - lists different ways, and calls herself a concubine too a foreign king then she calms down, venus soothes her saying she is jupiters wife and that she will get a continent named after her

Answer 8

poem about neptune complains to Lyde that he is too slow getting wine from the cellar - sun is going down describes a song he will sing about neptune and others, accompanied by the lyre - ending with venus

Answer 9

addressing maecenas says there is wine waiting at horaces house for him - tells him to escape what delays him and stop thinking of city matters forget riches and ambition and rome - to enjoy food under a poor mans roof Cepheus (the star, andromeda’s dad) is rising and Procyon and Leo quiet of the countryside tells him to stop worrying - that the goods hide the future to make him worry for their entertainment - that calmness will reconcile him with what is right now - the rest carried away on the river speaks in voice of a man who is his own master - tomorrow might bring storms but it cannot undo the good things which have passed fortune enjoys her cruelty - plays games - kind to one person then another praises fortune when she is here, resigns her gifts, wraps himself in virtue and embraces poverty (here styled as a woman he woos who has no dowry) not horace’s place to tell the gods what to do addresses castor and pollux - asks them to carry him safety on the storm - on his little boat

Answer 10

raised a monument more durable than architecture through his words - cannot be destroyed by the elements though he might die, a rich part will live on and not be destroyed by time, will escape persephone and will rise again with the praise of posterity while the priests and virgins climb capital - he will be famous despite his humble origins first to recreate aeolian song in italian verse addresses Melpomene (tragedy) - asks her to take pride ion what has been earned by her merit addresses muse: crown his head with delphic laurel

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