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The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult.The challenges posed by these satires are especially...
Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presentsHorace's poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The introduction focusses...
'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect...
Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and...
The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's friends, deals with the...
On connaît tous l’adage Carpe diem. Ce qui est moins connu, en revanche, c’est qu’il est tiré des Odes d’Horace. Tout imprégné d’épicurisme, ces poèmes célèbrent le bonheur d’une vie simple, à l’abri des tentations de l’ambition ou de la richesse, et la sagesse de vivre...
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