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Horace, Letters, 2.1.156


nanCaptive Greece captured, in turn, her uncivilised Conquerors, and brought the arts to rustic Latium. So coarse Saturnian metres faded, and good taste Banished venom: though traces of our rural Past remained for many a year, and still remain. Not till later did Roman thought turn to Greek models, And in the calm after the Punic Wars began to ask What Sophocles, Thespis, Aeschylus might offer. Romans experimented, seeing if they could rework Such things effectively, noble and quick by nature, They pleased: happily bold, with tragic spirit enough, Yet novices, thinking it shameful, fearing, to revise. Some think that Comedy, making use of daily life, Needs little sweat, but in fact it’s more onerous, Less forgiving. Look at how badly Plautus handles A youthful lover’s part, or a tight-fisted father, Or treacherous pimp, what a Dossenus he makes, Sly villain, amongst his gluttonous parasites, How slipshod he is in sliding about the stage. Oh, he’s keen to fill his pockets, and after that Cares little if it fails, or stands on its own two feet. A cold audience deflates, a warm one inspires Those whom Fame’s airy chariot bears to the light: So slight, so small a thing it is, shatters and restores Minds that crave praise. Farewell to the comic theatre, If winning the palm makes me rich, its denial poor.


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1. Cicero, On His Consulship, 5.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Catullus, Poems, 66.39 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Horace, Letters, 2.1, 2.1.5-2.1.17, 2.1.27, 2.1.49-2.1.52, 2.1.57, 2.1.59, 2.1.100-2.1.155, 2.1.157-2.1.205, 2.1.210-2.1.218, 2.1.225, 2.1.227-2.1.270, 2.2.183-2.2.185, 2.2.214 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.1. 1. After the death of Isaac, his sons divided their habitations respectively; nor did they retain what they had before; but Esau departed from the city of Hebron, and left it to his brother, and dwelt in Seir, and ruled over Idumea. He called the country by that name from himself, for he was named Adom; which appellation he got on the following occasion:— 2.1. This affection of his father excited the envy and the hatred of his brethren; as did also his dreams which he saw, and related to his father, and to them, which foretold his future happiness, it being usual with mankind to envy their very nearest relations such their prosperity. Now the visions which Joseph saw in his sleep were these:— 2.1. 3. Now these brethren of his were under distraction and terror, and thought that very great danger hung over them; yet not at all reflecting upon their brother Joseph, and standing firm under the accusations laid against them, they made their defense by Reubel, the eldest of them, who now became their spokesman:
4. Livy, History, 7.25.9, 8.22.8, 34.3.9, 34.4.1-34.4.3, 34.4.13, 34.4.19-34.4.20, 39.6.7-39.6.9 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.82, 11.3, 11.15-11.17, 11.19, 11.40, 11.50, 11.52-11.53, 11.61-11.66, 11.84 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Sallust, Catiline, 5.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

7. Strabo, Geography, 3.4.19 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.4.19. Some, as I have said, state that this country is separated into four divisions; others, into five. It is not easy to state any thing precisely on these points, both on account of the changes which the places have undergone, and by reason of their obscurity. In well-known and notable countries both the migrations are known, and the divisions of the land, and the changes of their names, and every thing else of the same kind. Such matters being the common topics with everybody, and especially with the Greeks, who are more talkative than any other people. But in barbarous and out-of-the-way countries, and such as are cut up into small divisions, and lie scattered, the remembrance of such occurrences is not nearly so certain, nor yet so full. If these countries are far removed from the Greeks [our] ignorance is increased. For although the Roman historians imitate the Greeks, they fall far short of them. What they relate is taken from the Greeks, very little being the result of their own ardour in acquiring information. So that whenever any thing has been omitted by the former there is not much supplied by the latter. Add to this, that the names most celebrated are generally Grecian. Formerly the name of Iberia was given to the whole country between the Rhone and the isthmus formed by the two Galatic gulfs; whereas now they make the Pyrenees its boundary, and call it indifferently Iberia or Hispania; others have restricted Iberia to the country on this side the Ebro. Still earlier it bore the name of the Igletes, who inhabited but a small district, according to Asclepiades the Myrlean. The Romans call the whole indifferently Iberia and Hispania, but designate one portion of it Ulterior, and the other Citerior. However, at different periods they have divided it differently, according to its political aspect at various times.
8. Vergil, Georgics, 4.523-4.527 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.523. The fetters, or in showery drops anon 4.524. Dissolve and vanish. But the more he shift 4.525. His endless transformations, thou, my son 4.526. More straitlier clench the clinging bands, until 4.527. His body's shape return to that thou sawest
9. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 31.116 (1st cent. CE

31.116.  Well, I once heard a man make an off-hand remark to the effect that there are other peoples also where one can see this practice being carried on; and again, another man, who said that even in Athens many things are done now which any one, not without justice, could censure, these being not confined to ordinary matters, but having to do even with the conferring of honours. "Why, they have conferred the title of 'Olympian,' " he alleged, upon a certain person he named, "though he was not an Athenian by birth, but a Phoenician fellow who came, not from Tyre or Sidon, but from some obscure village or from the interior, a man, what is more, who has his arms depilated and wears stays"; and he added that another, whom he also named, that very slovenly poet, who once gave a recital here in Rhodes too, they not only have set up in bronze, but even placed his statue next to that of Meder. Those who disparage their city and the inscription on the statue of Nicanor are accustomed to say that it actually bought Salamis for them.
10. Juvenal, Satires, 3.77 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

11. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 4.19.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

12. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 4.19.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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achilles Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
actium, battle of Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
aeneas, ecphrasis of the shield of Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
alexandria Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
amenhotep iii Rojas, The Remains of the Past and the Invention of Archaeology in Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons (2019) 214
apollo/apulu Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
appropriation Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
aristides (painter) Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
aristotle Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 489
asia Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117; Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
asyndeton Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 486, 489
athens Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
audience, as hostile and dangerous Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113, 114
audience, augustus as Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
audience, disclaimers to exclude inappropriate Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
audience, miscalculation of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
audience, ovids direct addressesto Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
audience, sexual subjects as offensive to Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
augustus, as audience Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
augustus Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 486
aulus postumius Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 394
avaritia Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
bacchus Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 486
callimachus Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
cameron, alan Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 33
captive Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
casa di octavius quartio (pompeii) Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32
cato, m. porcius (the censor, the elder) Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
cato (the elder), against greeks Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
cato the elder Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
cato the elder (m. porcius cato) Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
catullus Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
censorship, erotic subjects and Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
chairs Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
chiton (cingillum (belt) Radicke, Roman Women’s Dress: Literary Sources, Terminology, and Historical Development (2022) 383
christians, on syrians and jews, born for slavery Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
cicero Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
ciconian women Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
civil war Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
cleopatra Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
comedy, new Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
comedy Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 489
corinth Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
couches Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
culture, imperial greek Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
declamation Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
dio chrysostom, contempt for asiatic greeks Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 394
east Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
egypt Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
ennius, quintus Hardie, Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception (2023) 383
ennius Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
epic cycle Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
epicurus Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
ethnicity Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
euripides, bacchae Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
euripides Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
eurydice Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
fabius pictor Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
fear of immigrants in rome Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
feeney, d. Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
furniture, chairs Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
greece, greek vii Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
greed and bribery and acquisitiveness, originating abroad Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
greediness Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
greek doctors Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
hellenistic and roman myth/history, culture and identity Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
homer Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
horace, on greek culture in rome Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 394
horace, poem structure Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 486
horace, poet Bowersock, Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (1997) 29
horace Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220; Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
hyginus Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
identity, cross-cultural Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
immigrants in rome Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
imperial greek culture Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
impudicitia Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
intertextuality (see also allusion) Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
judaea Bowersock, Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (1997) 29
konstan, david Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32
livius andronicus Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
livy Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220; Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
looting' Rojas, The Remains of the Past and the Invention of Archaeology in Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons (2019) 214
lucretius Hardie, Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception (2023) 383; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
ludi romani Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
luxury and anti-luxury Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
marc antony Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
marsyas Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
mimesis, visual representations Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32
moderation Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
morality, roman Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
muse Hardie, Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception (2023) 383
natural slavery, the doctrine in rome Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
neos dionysos Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
notation, music Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
octavian (see also augustus) Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
odyssey, performance Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
opening (clothing) Radicke, Roman Women’s Dress: Literary Sources, Terminology, and Historical Development (2022) 383
orientalism Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
orpheus, as silenced by audience Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
orpheus, audience awareness and artistic strategies of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
orpheus, death of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
orpheus, ovids characterization of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
orpheus, vergils characterization of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
osiris Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
panegyric Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 486
parallelism Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
parody Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
pederasty Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
penthesilea Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
performance, of the past Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
performance Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33; Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
phanocles Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
philomela Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
piso frugi (l. calpurnius) Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
plautus Günther, Brill's Companion to Horace (2012) 489
pleasure Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
pliny, poems of Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
pliny (the elder), on greek doctors Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
plutarch Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
political context, and performance Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
polybius Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
punishment, silencing or loss of speech as Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
roman era, greek influence Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
roman era, poets at banquets Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 220
rome Bowersock, Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (1997) 29; Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
sabines as austere, as luxurious Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
sabines as austere, identity and value of Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
sabines as austere Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
second sophistic period, declamation Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32, 33
segal, charles Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 114
seneca, on environmental determinism, on jews Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
sexual subjects in art, eroticdidacticism Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
sexual subjects in art, orpheus and Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
sexual subjects in art, pederasty Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113
silence, as punishment Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 113, 114
social war Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
säid, suzanne Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32
tarpeia as amazon, worship of Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
tatius king of sabines Welch, Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth (2015) 89
tibullus Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
tragedy Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 238
triumph Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
victory, military Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
vida, marco girolamo Hardie, Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception (2023) 383
villa della farnesina Gorain, Language in the Confessions of Augustine (2019) 20
violence Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
virgil Hardie, Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception (2023) 383
virtue Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 54
visual representations, of homer Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 32
west, vs east Fabre-Serris et al., Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021) 117
xenophobia, in athens, in rome Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
xenophobia, in athens Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 225
zona (belt) Radicke, Roman Women’s Dress: Literary Sources, Terminology, and Historical Development (2022) 383