Image is everything: satiric elements in Horace's lyric persona

The ways in which the poet Horace appears in his Odes are multi-faceted and complex. In constructing his poetic personae, Horace alludes to a vast array of literary precedents, both Greek and Latin. One of the very many works to which Horace refers often in the Odes is his own previous collection of poetry, the Satires, published over ten years before the publication of the Odes. This thesis explores the ways in which Horace uses elements of his personae in the Satires to shape the personae he presents in his Odes.