Horace's "Carmen Saeculare": Ritual Magic and the Poet`s Art

Michael C. J. PutnamYale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300182668

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Horace's "Carmen Saeculare": Ritual Magic and the Poet`s Art

Michael C. J. PutnamYale University Press

ISBN-10: 030018266X · ISBN-13: 978‑0300182668 · 2001

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Michael C. J. Putnam provides an exhaustive analysis of Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, the seminal hymn commissioned by Augustus for the 17 B.C.E. Ludi Saeculares. By examining the intersection of ritual magic, poetic structure, and political ideology, the author illuminates how Horace transformed a state-mandated performance into a sophisticated meditation on Roman identity and the divine order of the Augustan age.

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Publisher: Yale University Press
Feb 01, 2001
Pages: 190

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Author: Michael C. J. Putnam

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Inferred: Augustan AgeInferred: Classical AntiquityInferred: Classical LiteratureInferred: Latin PhilologyInferred: Political RitualInferred: Roman PoetryInferred: Augustan PoetryInferred: Roman Ritual

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