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Document Details : Title: Exegi monumentum aere perennius Subtitle: Zur Poetologie des Aufstiegs und der materialen Permanenz der poetischen memoria in Horaz' Oden Author(s): WILLMS, Lothar Journal: Latomus Volume: 79 Issue: 2 Date: 2020 Pages: 438-487 DOI: 10.2143/LAT.79.2.3288659 Abstract : This paper explores how the lyric speaker constructs his poetic identity as a uates in Hor. carm. 1,1; 2,20 and 3,30. Ιn all three poems, we find a Cartesian coordinate system consisting of a vertical and horizontal axis. These axes structure the space and enable the poet’s ascension to the gods on the vertical axis. In carm. 2,20 and 3,30 time serves as an additional parameter in the construction of identity. In carm. 2,20, the lyric speaker defines his identity in the face of death with a poetological metamorphosis into a swan, and in carm. 3,30 his oeuvre assumes this role. By the afterlife of his work, the speaker hopes to overcome the evanescence to which everything corporal or material is otherwise doomed. By identifying himself with the significate, the poet elegantly solves the problem of the materiality of the aesthetical sign which Dieter Mersch has brought to the fore. |
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