This volume sets out to explore the complex relationship between Horace and Seneca. It is the
first book that examines the interface between these different and yet highly comparable
authors with consideration of their ?uvres in their entirety. The fourteen chapters collected
here explore a wide range of topics clustered around the following four themes: the combination
of literature and philosophy the ways in which Seneca's choral odes rework Horatian material
and move beyond it the treatment of ethical poetic and aesthetic questions by the two
authors and the problem of literary influence and reception as well as ancient and modern
reflections on these problems. While the intertextual contacts between Horace and Seneca
themselves lie at the core of this project it also considers the earlier texts that serve as
sources for both authors intermediary steps in Roman literature and later texts where
connections between the two philosopher-poets are drawn. Although not as obviously palpable as
the linkage between authors who share a common generic tradition this uneven but pervasive
relationship can be regarded as one of the most prolific literary interactions between the
early Augustan and the Neronian periods. A bidirectional list of correspondences between Horace
and Seneca concludes the volume.
