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X-WR-CALNAME:Julia Mebane (Indiana University) "Carthago et Numantia: Repub
 lican History in Horace Ode 2.12"
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DESCRIPTION:Talk description:\n\nIn the recusatio of Ode 2.12\, Horace decl
 ares the unsuitability of the lyre to the weighty subjects of history\, co
 nveyed by a list of conflicts that moves chronologically backward from the
  Numantine War to the Second Punic War to the First Punic War. This paper 
 asks why Horace begins with the bellum Numantinum\, which marked the final
  stage of the long and unpopular Iberian Wars that occupied Rome for much 
 of the second century BCE. I argue that his choice becomes legible in rela
 tion to Cicero\, who uses Numantia as a proxy for Carthage to denote the d
 ecline of the republic. Through his engagement with this tradition\, Horac
 e explores questions of civil strife\, exemplary statesmanship\, and the p
 eriodization of Roman history.\n\nShort Bio:\n\nJulia Mebane is Assistant 
 Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Classical 
 Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington. Her research explores the rol
 e of metaphor and allusion in Roman political thought. Her first book\, Th
 e Body Politic in Roman Political Thought\, came out with Cambridge in 202
 4 and was the recipient of the Goodwin Award. She is currently working on 
 projects related to the symbolic seascapes of republican prose and the "we
 ight of empire" trope in early imperial literature.\n\nThis talk will not 
 be recorded and will not be available on Zoom.
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LOCATION:Building 110\, 112
SUMMARY:Julia Mebane (Indiana University) "Carthago et Numantia: Republican
  History in Horace Ode 2.12"
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 sity-carthago-et-numantia-republican-history-in-horace-ode-212
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