Tras las huellas de Horacio: Carm.,1,2 y 4, 15

Abstract

Horace, in Carm., 1, 2, and 4, 15 alludes several times to gods important to Octavian's adoptive family and to the ruler himself, whose presence has been traditionally analized and í­nterpreted from an internal point of view: it can be explained because of the relatí­onship between gods and the gens Iulia. 1'11 try to offer in this paper a complementary point of view: using an external analysis to understand references to gods, 1 think that its presence can be explained beca use of the temples they "lived in" in Rome, because of the places where these temples were built and, finally, because of the iconic representations used for its cult. At the same time, the new relationship established between 1, 2 and 4, 15 offers evidences for a new understanding of Horace's second edition of lyric poetry, that presenting Odes's Fourth Book