About Horatiana

From Horatiana

Itur in antiquam silvam. Thus R.A.B. Mynors began the preface to his P. Vergili Maronis Opera (Oxford, 1969), writing that the famous words of Aen. 6.179 arose spontaneously to his mind as he considered the ancient manuscripts of Virgil's works. The metaphor is richly evocative of the philologist's excitement and fear as he enters the dark and ancient thickets of learned discourse on Latin poetry, especially Horace; in the dense, sometimes impenetrable grove of Horatian scholarship, nearly two millennia old, darkness mingles with light and dread mingles freely with the thrill of being in the presence of ancient spirits. To make this space more easily accessible for scholars and to introduce new students of Horace to this history is the dual goal of Horatiana.

You will find the latest developments on the News page; under Links you will find a collection of online resources related to Horace, including texts, translations and scholarship.

The Bibliographies page will continue to grow and be brought up to date. Niklas Holzberg's Horaz: Eine Bibliographie, though incomplete, remains the most accessible and useful work of its kind. The Projects section contains information on and supplements to my on-going research.

Contributions are welcome; contact the webmaster at the email address below.

This website was created in 2010 by Daniel Barber using MediaWiki and Wikindx. The emblemata are courtesy of the Emblem Project Utrecht.

Contact: webmaster@horatiana.org.