Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions.
Two appendixes discuss firstly the suggestion, made over a century ago, that Horace?s father may have been an Alexandrian Jew; and secondly the reception of Horace by the outsider prince of Russian letters, and subject of another Caesar ...
This is what Newman already emphasised in his Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility (Weidman, Hildesheim 1990, Pp. 483) and tries again to emphasise for the more general reader here.0John Kevin Newman, born in ...