A comprehensive treatment of the reflections by Augustan poets on Apollo as an imperial icon.

In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, “I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,”—a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and buil

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

Traces the developing attitude of poets of the first century BC, considering why they came to write as they did.