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INDEX Aeneas, on Ara Pacis Augustae, 14 Catullus, 2, 12, 14, 15, 33, 48, 49, 70, 79 Aeolian poetry, 2 Cicero, 58, 61, 67 Agrippa, M. Vipsanius, 52 Circus Maximus, 39 Alcaeus, 79 Cleanthes, 20 Alexander the Great, 40 Cleopatra VII, 43 Alexandria, cult of Muses at, 11 collegia iuvenum, 28 Alexandrianism, 33 comitium, 65 Antiochus III, 71 Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 60, 61, 64 Antonius, Marcus, 30, 43, 54, 68, 80 Cura, 24, 25, 26 Anzio, marine architecture at, 22 Curia, 65 Apollo, 53, 55, 56, 57 Apuleius, 50 Dacia, 68, 69 Apulia, 47 Damocles, sword of, 21 Ara Maxima, 39 Dionysius of Syracuse, 21, 23 Ara Pacis Augustae, 14, 15, 18, 51, 52, 53, Dionysus, see Bacchus 61, 76, 80 Divus lulius, temple of, 66 Ara Pietatis Augustae, 51 Domitius Ahenobarbus, altar of, 13 architecture, parallels to literature, 15, 19, 49, 50, 57, 76; see also historical reliefs: Egypt, 68, 69 parallels with literature and the reading elegy, 2; see also Ovid; Propertius; process Tibullus; Roman Odes and erotic elegy Asterie, 72, 80, 81, 82 Ennius, 2, 41, 64 Augustus, C. Octavius, relations with Etna, 54 Horace, 3-4; association with Roman topographical sites, 39; civic action and Fides, 9 policy of, 4, 8, 26, 28, 32, 43-44, 48, Fortuna, 9, 16, 19, 21, 25 54, 55,57, 59,60, 61,62,66,68, 74,80; Fortuna Primigenita, temple of at Prae- divinity of, 16, 37, 39, 40, 42, 53, 59, neste, 50 60, 61, 74 Forum Augusti, 13 Aventine hill, 39 Forum Boarium, 39 Forum Romanum, 39, 65, 66, 76 Furor impius, 74 Bacchus, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 39, 40, 41, 44 Gallus, 33 Baiae, 53 Giants, 9, 20, 47, 53, 54, 55, 56, 74 Basilica of Constantine, 40 Gradivus, see Mars Basilica Ulpia, 50 Gyges (giant), 56 Bosphorus, 53 Gyges (lover of Asterie, Odes III. 7), 81, 82 Britain, 53, 59, 60, 61 Brutus, Marcus Junius, 4 Hannibal, 70 Hercules, 39, 40, 45 Caesar, Gaius Julius, 40, 43, 59, 67, 76, Hercules Musarum, 39 80 Hesiod, 55, 56 Callimachus, 12, 20, 50, 56, 79 Historical reliefs, self-stated objective Campus Martius, 39 existence of as art, 35; lex arae establish­ Cancelleria reliefs, 51, 61 ing context and function of, 18; recovery Cape Palinurus, 53 of information vs. imposition of order Carthage, 60, 62, 65, 71, 73, 74 in, 14-16; space in relief as related to Casa Romuli, 50 time in literary art, 13; parallels with Cassius Longinus, Gaius, 4 literature and the reading process, 14, Castor, 39 15, 49, 50-52, 54, 61, 65, 66, 76, 79 Castor and Pollux, temple of, 66 Homer, and poetry of, 29, 30, 62, 79 84 INDEX Horace, civil war activities of, 4, 53 Necessitas, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21,. 22, 25, 26, 28, -, relations with Maecenas, 4, 8 30, 31 -, relations with Augustus, 3-4, 17, 18 Nigidius Figulus, 61 -, political orientation, 3-4 Numa, 61 -, and philosophy, 4, 16, 20, 35 -, and religion, 11, 19, 20, 21, 68 Octavian, see Augustus, C. Octavius -, and Rome, 18 Ovid, 29, 40, 55, 70 - , and Sabine territory, 25 -, poetic logic of, 22, 23, 30 Palatine, palace of Domitian on, 50 -, persona of, 17, 19, 33, 36, 45, 53, 56, Pallas, see Minerva 57, 67, 72-73, 81 Pantheon, 15, 50 -, Epodes of, 3, 6 Paris, 41, 43 -, Satires of, 3, 14, 50, 64 Parthia, 59, 60, 61, 64, 68, 69 -, Epistles of, 3, 4, 64, 81 Persius, 64 - , see also Roman Odes Petronius, 24, 50 Philippi, 4, 53 iambics, 2 Piazza Armerina, villa at, 50 lapetus, a Titan, 55 Pindar, 44, 56, 57, 65, 79 Italia, 53 Pirithous, a Lapith, 56 Plautus, 48 Janus, temple of, 60 Pliny the Elder, 40 Juno, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, Pollux, 39, 40 56, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68 Porphyry, 12 Jupiter, 20, 21, 33, 38, 53, 54, 56, 57, Portico of Octavia, 39 58, 59, 67, 73, 74 Praeneste, 50 Juvenal, 71 Propertius, 70, 79 Proserpina, 56 Lacus Curtius, 65 Prudentius, 79 Laomedon, 41 Pyrrhus, 70 lex arae, 14, 18, 52; see also historical reliefs Quirinus, see Romulus/Quirinus Lollius, Marcus, 34 Lucilius, 2 reading process, ancient and modern Lucretius, 48 distinctions in, 4-5 lusus Troiae, 28 -, codex vs. papyrus roll, 11-13, 15, 48, lyric poetry, ancient and modern distinc­ 49 tions, 2-3 -, closure, 6-7 -, civic concerns of, 2-3 -, controlled order vs. fluidity, 13-16 - , identity of meter as basis for unity, -, continuity of and totality of access to 13-17 text, 48-50 - , sequences of in identical meter, 7-10 - , poet as teacher of, 80 -, as object of study, 78, 79 - , see also historical reliefs: parallels - , new function of in Horace, 79, 80 with literature - , and the reading process Maecenas, 4, 8 Regia, 76 Manlius, altar of, 51 Regulus, Marcus Atilius, 35, 58, 59, 60, Marcus Aurelius, column of, 13, 14 61, 62, 63, 6~ 65, 66, 71, 72, 74 Mars, 26, 40, ·51 Roman Odes, origin of name, 1 Mars Ultor, temple of, 57, 80 -, dating, 8, 67 Martial, 40 -, manuscripts, 7, 37, 61 Minae, 24, 25, 26 -, textual problems, 5, 39, 47 Minerva, 41, 51, 55, 56, 74 -, and erotic elegy, 29, 70, 71 Muses, 11, 25, 39, 47, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61, -, and epic, 18, 79-81 63, 64, 67, 73, 74, 75, 76 -, and pastoral, 65, 71 .
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