Putting Variety at Issue Varietas in Pliny the Younger, Lucretius, and Horace
Putting Variety at Issue Varietas in Pliny the Younger, Lucretius, and Horace
The third chapter examines the strategic role that the concept (and vocabulary) of variety plays in three Latin authors. In Pliny’s letters, variety plays an important role in negotiating Pliny’s anxieties about what he amounts to and in what sphere of achievement he should rest his claim on posterity. Lucretius has to describe how the colourless atoms can produce a world that is so generously varied. Finally, Horace gestures towards an aesthetics of variety sometimes even in passages whose explicit content is quite different.
Keywords: Pliny the Younger, Lucretius, Horace, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Catullus
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