Two Metamorphosesin Horace’s Second Roman Ode

dc.contributor.authorFerenczi, Attila
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T22:22:20Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T22:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-05
dc.description.abstractIt has always been a much-debated question how the two final stanzas of Horace’s Second Roman Ode fit to what came before in this poem. This paper will venture to place the apparent anomaly of these two verses within a new context emphasizing the strong and traditional connection between the constitution of the Roman State and the  pax deorum . The second section of the poem (verses 5-6) portrays the workings of  virtus  as something incompatible with the usual ways and protocols of the late Republican political procedure in Rome. The all-changing power can be regarded as an inevitable consequence of the nature of the  virtus,  but at the same time, it can cause religious anxiety from somebody seeing and understanding this transformation. The last two verses about a religious panic do not contrast with the poem's previous passages but represent a new voice in the political discourse.en
dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 60 (2024) , 45–56.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.22315/
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/380404
dc.identifier.volume60
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/13792
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectsubversive power of virtusen
dc.subjectconstitution of the Roman stateen
dc.subjectreligious anxietyen
dc.subjectclash between mythical hero and the historical stateen
dc.subjectextraordinaryen
dc.titleTwo Metamorphosesin Horace’s Second Roman Odeen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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