Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace’s Satires 1
Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace’s Satires 1
This chapter continues the theme of judgment as it is addressed in the poetic genre devoted to passing judgment on one's fellows: satire. It presents a reading of Horace's first book of Satires, and raises questions about the influence of others over the subject, and the degree to which the subject's desire for, or fantasy of, autonomy is interrupted by his reliance on, and pleasure in, the influence of those around him. The satiric narrator is a complex subject, mercurial, self-divided, and self-critical, highly attentive to his own faults and suspicious of his capacity to render judgment even in the act of doing so.
Keywords: Roman political thought, satire, Horace, autonomy
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