Horace’s<i>Odes</i>as the “Hidden Rhetoric” of the Principate, 27 BCE to 14 CE

Rhetoric Review Apr 2018

Horace’s<i>Odes</i>as the “Hidden Rhetoric” of the Principate, 27 BCE to 14 CE

John Belk Southern Utah University

Abstract

The principate of Augustus (27 BCE to 14 CE) has been portrayed as a period of rhetorical decline, given the suppression of late-Republic fiery, Ciceronian oratory. Building from recent scholarship that complicates this narrative, this article considers public poetry as a site of rhetorical practice, enriching understandings of rhetoric’s metamorphosis during the principate. In particular, the Odes of Horace—public poetry with persuasive designs achieved through enthymematic argument—are one example of how poetry served as a form of “hidden” epideictic rhetoric during the reign of Augustus when traditional forms of oratory were suppressed.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2018-04-03
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2018.1424471
Open Access: Closed
Topics: race and writing

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