Angela M. Andrisano earned her Laurea in Classics (1969) at the University of Bologna with a thesis on the tragedies of Aeschylus. She was Ricercatrice in the Departmenta of Classical Philology in Bologna before moving to the University of Ferrara (Humanities Department), where she is now Associate Professor Classical Philology.

Prof. Andrisano's two principal research fields are ancient theatrical texts (in particular Aristophanes' comedies) and Greek lyric poetry. She has just edited a collection of critical essays on drama - Il corpo teatrale tra testi e messinscena: dalla drammaturgia classica all'esperienza laboratoriale contemporanea (Rome 2006) - to which she also contributed. Her extensive publications on Greek lyric includes articles on Archilochus, sappho, and Alcaeus. Prof. Andrisano is a member of the Editorial Board of "Dioniso", the journal of the I.N.D.A. Foundation, and of the "Annali di Ferrara On Line" - Sezione Lettere: Linguistica, Letterature, Cinema, Teatro.

My paper will study the impace of Greek lyric on Horace's Epodes, identifying elements which are typical not only of iambic, but also of lyric and comic poetry. The manner in which Horace recalls his sources is that of a Hellenistic poet who continually re-elaborates earlier traditions. Among archaic writers Horace specifically mentions Archilochus, Alcaeus and Hipponax as Greek modesl for his poetic collections, but he also inlcudes quotations from and allustions to other lyric poets.

The Epodes revived the iambic genre in a socio-politicl situation in which the former virulence of a Hipponax was no longer acceptable. Hence Horace took advantage of strands of archaic epode which involved less vehement personal attacks, and in this way he was bale to compose an Augustan version of the iambic genre while apparently keeping to Greek models. Part of his balancing act was his cultivation of a simple style which in its word-order continually echoed that of his archaic models. The Epodes, therefore, recreate a classical form rich in literary implications, combining homage to the Greeks with the Roman poetic tradition.