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- Title
THE BARKING CURE: HORACE'S "ANATOMY OF RAGE" IN EPODES 1, 6, AND 16.
- Authors
HAWKINS, JULIA NELSON
- Abstract
This article argues that the figure of the dog functions in Horace's Epodes as a cipher for trauma. my title takes its inspiration from freud's "talking cure," but my contention is that Horace accomplishes an inversion of this psychoanalytic method in his Epodes. I argue that Horace's rehabilitation of Archilochean iambus in the image of attack animals in Epode 6 at this particular pass in roman history involves a rehabilitation of the iambic dog and a refocusing of the rabid rage--punning on the semantic link between rabies (anger) and rabies (disease)--that characterized not only the Triumviral period, but also the biography of Archilochus.
- Subjects
EPODES (Poem : Horace); HORACE, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.; LYRIC poetry; DOGS in literature; EMOTIONAL trauma in literature; ARCHILOCHUS; RABIES in literature; ANGER in literature; ANCIENT (Literary period)
- Publication
American Journal of Philology, 2014, Vol 135, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0002-9475
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/ajp.2014.0006