
The Complete Odes and Epodes
Horace(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 28. April 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-14-044422-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 exquisitely crafted insights into the brief joys of the present and the uncertain nature of the future, his Odes and Epodes explore such diverse themes as the virtues of pastoral life, the joys of wine, friendship and love, and the poet's personal anguish following Brutus' defeat at the battle of Phillipi. Ranging from subtle and tender hymns to the gods to bawdy celebrations of human passions, they remain among the most influential of all poems, inspiring poets from the Roman era to the European Renaissance, the Enlightenment and beyond.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 181 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-044422-3 (9780140444223)
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Content
The Complete Odes and EpodesIntroduction
Select Bibliography
Translator's Foreword
Select Bibliography
Translator's Foreword
Epodes
Odes, Book I
Odes, Book II
Odes, Book III
Centennial Hymn
Odes, Book IV
Appendix: Suetonius, The Life of Horace
Notes
Glossary of Proper Names
Index to Poems