Satires and Epistles of Horace and Satires of Persius

Name: Satires and Epistles of Horace and Satires of Persius
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ISBN: 9780140455083

ISBN-10: 0140455086

ISBN-13: 9780140455083

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Horace, Persius, Niall Rudd, Wyatt Horace, Rudd

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From Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope, through to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost, the works of both Horace and Persius have had a major influence on Western literature. This text features their amusing treatment of man's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.77" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Persius was a native of Etruria and was educated in Rome, where he became Lucan's friend. He wrote six satires in a somewhat contorted style, which inculcate Stoic morality. His sanity and wit have direct appeal.



Foreword to the Second Edition


Foreword to the 1997 Edition


Foreword to the 2005 Edition


Introduction


Horace, Satires I
































Horace, Satires II


























Horace, Epistles I






























































Horace, Epistles II








Ars Poetica (Epistle 3)


Persius


Prologue




















Notes


Select Bibliography


Index