5 août 2016
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Martin Korenjak, « Briefe eines Philosophen? Horaz im ersten Epistelbuch. Wiener Studien|Wiener Studien 129 129| », Elektronisches Publikationsportal der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, ID : 10670/1.shhse7
It is often said that in the first book of his epistles, Horace turns his back on poetry and converts to philosophy. However, as a freethinker, he does not subscribe to one single philosophical school, but rather expounds an autonomous eclecticism instead. – Beginning from an examination of the opening verses of Epistle 1, 1, the present article subjects this idea to a critical analysis and rejects it. In a second part, an alternative reading of Horace’s book of poetical letters is put forward.