THE IMAGE OF TIME IN THE «ODES» OF HORACE

Abstract

The presented article examines all four books of the «Odes» by the poet, a representative of the Roman era of the period of Emperor Augustus, Quintus Horace Flaccus. The work focuses on the poetic context, which contains all kinds of temporal images. The structure and models of temporal images and symbols are described. The attention is focused on a brief coverage of the issues of modern research on the work of Horace in the European linguistic tradition, namely over the last fifty years. The understanding of the concept of time in the ancient era is briefly, but meaningfully presented. The stylistic, lexical, structural features of the poetics of the image of time in ancient Roman classical poetry, namely in the «Odes» of Horace, are considered and described. The cases of their use in the text are analyzed. It has been established that in order to achieve a perfect phonetic and poetic own style, Horace very often uses rhythm and melody and various literary tropes and stylistic figures (in particular, alliteration, assonance). It has been studied that the temporal images of Horace's poetics are built on the professional implementation of the combination and integration into the different-metric poetry of clearly selected vocabulary, which not only depicts and is responsible for the specific intended information, but also forms an auditory-visual figurative imagination. Thus, it has been revealed that Horace skillfully selected and calculated combinations of sounds and, as a result, lexeme and contextual meanings in various specific and classical literary lyrical verse subgenres and thereby demonstrated the combination of formal and substantive (sense) in connection with the sound organization. The evidence of the high poetic idiostyle of Quintus Horace Flaccus has been confirmed and substantiated.