Horace on ‘Imitation’ and Life

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Horace on ‘Imitation’ and Life
Parker, Robert

From the journal Hermes Hermes, Volume 151, August 2023, issue 3

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

miscellaneous, 525 Words
Original language: English
Hermes 2023, pp 383-384
https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2023-0031

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Abstract

Horace Ars Poetica 317–8 plays pointedly on the transition in the sense of μίμησις from imitation of life to imitation of a literary model, suggesting that the poet should ‘look back’ at times from the latter to the former.

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Robert Parker

Keywords

Horace, Ars Poetica | mimesis

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References

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