Horace - The Quest of a Poetic Ideal or the Enigma of Refusal?

In his attempt to clarify the meaning of Horace’s hemistich nil scribens ipse docebo (Ars, 306), the author of this paper considers this line as a particular form of the recusatio motif, which appeared very frequently in Augustan poetry. The peculiarity of this motif derives from the fact that the...

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Main Author: Liviu Franga
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2017-06-01
Series:RiCognizioni
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Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2099