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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Professor Ancona offers an enlightening, provocative re-evaluation of the complex intertwining of eroticism and temporality, desire’s intense moments and the passage of time, in the
Odes of Horace. Her readings will be of importance to all students of Horace and of Latin in general."—Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University
"This book contributes to a new understanding of familiar material (fourteen of Horace’s love odes). Horace is probably the last poet one might think would yield his secrets to the dissection of a feminist critic, but the author has been very successful in reading Horace’s erotic poetry in a new way. Her study provides a breath of fresh air in the sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere of even recent scholarship on Horace."—Sheila K. Dickison, University of Florida
"This study has much to offer specialists in the field of Horatian poetry in particular and of Augustan literature generally: its nuanced, insightful and provocative close readings of various poems; its successful efforts at problematizing both the poet/lover’s perspective and the tendency of Horace’s leading modern interpreters to adopt this perspective uncritically; its recognition that certain innovative, feminist perspectives pioneered in theoretically grounded studies of modern literature can prove helpful both in dealing with Horace’s texts and in comprehending the limitations of traditional Horatian criticism."—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland
