Epicurean Ethics in Horace The Psychology of Satire

Sergio Yona, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Missouri

Sergio Yona is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri and received his PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include the reception of Greek philosophy in Rome, Augustan and Early Christian poetry, and textual criticism, and he has published articles on Plato, Vergil, and Epicureanism in Horace. He lives with his wife and six children in Columbia, MO.

0. Introduction
1. Philosophical Background to Epicureanism in the Satires
Brief Overview of Philosophical Influences
Life and Works of Philodemus
Epicurus: Economics and Patronage
Philodemus: Economics and Patronage
Philodemus, Flattery, and Epicurean Frankness
Epicurus, Philodemus, and Methodology
2. Epicurean Economic and Social Undertones of Satires 1.1-3
Philodemus and the Epicurean Diatribe
Epicurean Economics in Satires 1.1
Epicurean Frankness in Satires 1.1-3
3. The Background of Horace's Moral Credentials in Satires 1.4 and 1.6
Epicurean Upbringing in Satires 1.4
Horace's Father and Frank Criticism
Epicurean Patronage in Satires 1.6
Epicurean Frankness in Satires 1.6
4. Flattery, Patronage, Wealth, and Epicurean Ethics: Satires 1.9, 2.5, and 2.6
Philodemus and the Pest in Satires 1.9
Captator and Client in Satires 2.5
Wealth and Philosophical Withdrawal in Satires 2.6
5. Deficient Wealth, Excessive Frankness: Satires 2.2, 2.3, and 2.7
Unusual Economists in Satires 2.2 and 2.3
Ineffectual Frankness in Satires 2.3 and 2.7
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index