Horace Odes I Carpe Diem

Name: Horace Odes I Carpe Diem
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ISBN: 9780198721604

ISBN-10: 0198721609

ISBN-13: 9780198721604

Edition: 1995

Authors: Horace, David West

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Horace is a great poet, much loved and imitated in the past, and in recent years much better understood as a result of the learned commentaries of Nisbet and Hubbard (1970, 1978). and Syndikus (1972, 1973). Yet today he is little read. This is partly because he had never been translated into English which is both close to the Latin and readable. The aim of this book is to provide such a translation and support it by a basic commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know any Latin, to understand how the poetry works. It should also stimulate and provoke students of Latin and of Roman history by propounding interpretations which are not always in line with current…

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List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgement


Introduction


Odes Book 1


Appendix: A Conspectus of Metres Used in the Odes of Book 1


List of Works Cited


Brief Notes on Ancient Authors


Select Index of Names


Index of Topics