Open AccessHoracio: punzada en el corazón de la muerte
Author(s) -
Bartolomé Segura Ramos
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.2002.v70.i1.121
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , ode , philosophy , literature , humanities , art , medicine
The argument in this article is that Horace's treatment of death, in literary terms, can be divided into three distinct phases: the first (41 to 30 years), in which he alludes to it in a distant, jocular and humorous way; the second (30 to 20), during which he feels overcome by an intense melancholy; and the third (20 to 8 years), in which, except for Ode IV 7, he almost forgets death altogether. The author sees the reasons for these three phases in the genre and in political and personal motives