Horace

The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon and in particular with the seventh-century Greek poet Archilochus. In none of Horace's works is his originality more brilliantly displayed than in this creative appropriation of a hitherto unexploited Greek genre. David Mankin's introduction and commentary examines all aspects of Horace's relationship with his models and of the technical accomplishment of his verse; it also gives help with linguistic problems. His edition places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context: Rome at the time of its greatest crisis, the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate. . Students and scholars alike will welcome this commentary, only the second in any language since the 1930s and the only one providing a full and detailed interpretation in English.

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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation - in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture.

Translators of poems include Stephen Edward De Vere, John Dryden, Francis William Newman, Theodore Martin, Philip Francis, Anna Seward, Francis Howes, Arthur S. Way, Alexander Falconer Murison, John Conington, John Charles Baring, E.C. Cox, Franklin P. Adams, Roswell Martin Field, William Dowe, Louis Untermeyer, Elizabeth Carter, Austin Dobson, Lucius Morris Beebe, Thomas Charles Baring, Edward Yardley, William Sinclair Marris, Edward Sullivan, J.H. Deazeley, Warren H. Cudworth, John Paul Bocock, Samuel Johnson, Margaret M. FitzGerald, Enola Brandt, T. Rutherford Clark, John Parke, Charles Stuart Calverly, Hugh Vibart MacNaghten, Baxter Mow, Bryan Waller Proctor, John Osborne Sargent, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Ben Jonson, Christopher Smart, Alfred B. Lund, Francis Wrangham, George John Whyte-Melville, and Arthur W. Fox.

Horace's second book of Odes, looks back at the civil wars, comments on friendship and gives an insight into the social and intellectual tone of the age of Augustus. The book contains the Latin text with English translation and a commentary.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.