Table of Contents
1 Arma uirumque cano 1
2 Some Background 24
Part I Writing, Performance, and Performativity
3 The Performance of Horatian Lyric: The Limits of Reference 63
4 Horatian Lyric and Metaphorical Truths 98
5 At The Limits of Performativity: The Carmen saeculare 123
6 Monument And Festival in Vergil 142
7 Elegy: Overcoming Inability 175
Part II Performance and the Augustan Literary Epistle
8 Love and Semiotics 215
9 Beyond Performance Envy: Horace, Epistles 2. 1 235
10 De- and Re-contextualization: Horace, Epistles 1. 19 251
11 Ovid's Triumphs in Exile: Representation and Power 259
Part III Writing, Performance, and Politics
12 Auctoritas and Representation: Augustus's Res gestae 279
13 Occasion and Monument: The Ara Pacis 309
Part IV Reading and the Law
14 Literature and the Law: Horace, Sermones 2. 1 327
15 Inscription and Testimony: Propertius 4. 11 349
16 The Pragmatics of Literature: Ovid 360
Abbreviations 383
References 388
Index Locorum 411
Subject Index 419