Horace Odes and Epodes by Horace

Horace Odes and Epodes

Monumental verse. The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public...
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Author: Horace
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Horace Odes and Epodes by Horace

Horace Odes and Epodes

$591.08

Horace Odes and Epodes

$591.08
Author: Horace
Format: Hardcover
Language: Latin

Monumental verse.

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes boasts a faithful and fluid translation and reflects current scholarship.

Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of Odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the Odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horace's seventeen Epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the Odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; the tone is only occasionally aggressive. "In his language he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; Niall Rudd's translation reflects his different voices.

Author: Horace
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06/01/2004
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 6.66h x 4.44w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780674996090
Language: Latin

About the Author
Rudd, Niall: - Niall Rudd (1927-2015) was Professor of Latin, University of Bristol.

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