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An Asianist Sensation: Horace on Lucilius as Hortensius

Author(s) -

Ian Goh

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the american journal of philology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1086-3168

pISSN - 0002-9475

DOI - 10.1353/ajp.2018.0039

Subject(s) - cicero , literature , mill , metaphor , innovator , art , identification (biology) , history , philosophy , law , linguistics , archaeology , political science , intellectual property , biology , botany

The Asianist orator Hortensius Hortalus is a partial model for Horace's critique of Lucilius in his début collection Satires 1. Much mileage is derived from the metaphor of Lucilius as a "muddy river." The appearances of Hortensius, a wealthy lover of luxury and innovator in dining habits, in Varro's De Re Rustica 3, Cicero's Brutus (where, recently deceased, he is especially memorialized) and Orator, and Catullus 65 are grist to Horace's mill. Lucilius is tendentiously linked to Asianism as well as Asia itself, and the identification is pursued through recall of Lucilius' own statements, as Horace toys with Republican texts.

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