Horace's Ars Poetica by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill;

Author:Jennifer Ferriss-Hill;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

74. Already Porphyrio and Pseudo-Acro see Horace at 137 translating the opening of a specific poem of the epic cycle by one Antimachus (Brink 1971: 214 accepts their assertion), which would render even more pointed the idea that fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum has already been done. On the Greek epic cycle, see further Davies 1989 and the essays in Fantuzzi and Tsagalis 2015, especially their introduction, 1–40, and Fantuzzi’s chapter, 405–29.

75. Cf. Brink 1971: 212 (“it is a fault to begin in the manner of a ‘cyclic writer’, that is, with a proem ill adapted to the rest of the work”), Rudd 1989: 173 (“presumably we should regard the line [sc. 137] as [i] pompous in itself, and [ii] the wrong sort of prelude to an epic” because “the scope of the announcement is too wide”), Fantuzzi 2015: 422 (who sees Horace objecting to works that, while referring in their incipit “to the whole myth,” narrate “only a portion”).

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