Dulcis cantus en la oda 2, 12 de Horacio

Abstract

This paper seeks to look into the metaliterary aspects of the Ode II, 12 as a key for reading the Horatian poetic proposal. We notice that the author uses a Hellenistic literary device, widely developed in Augustan and Romanized literature, in accordance with D’Anna (1979), from Vergil’s Eclogue VI - recusatio-excusatio. This resource functions in Horace to distance himself not only from genus grande but also from the elegiac genre, and to propose his own genus tenue, whose characteristic features are concentrated in the dulcis cantus expression