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Author : Horace
Release : 2000
Genre : Laudatory poetry, Latin
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Book Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes by : Horace
Download or read book The Complete Odes and Epodes written by Horace. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of lyric poetry by the Roman poet Horace.
Author : Horace
Release : 2006-04-27
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes by : Horace
Download or read book The Complete Odes and Epodes written by Horace. This book was released on 2006-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Horace
Release : 1898
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Book Synopsis The Epodes of Horace; Tr. Into English Verse by : Horace
Download or read book The Epodes of Horace; Tr. Into English Verse written by Horace. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horace
Release : 2017-01-18
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Book Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace by : Horace
Download or read book The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace written by Horace. This book was released on 2017-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Odes and Epodes of HoraceThe Works of HoraceTranslated literally into English proseBy C. Smart, A.M.Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".The Epodes belong to the iambic genre of 'blame poetry', written to shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. Horace modelled these poems on the work of Archilochus. Social bonds in Rome had been decaying since the destruction of Carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption, and the troubles were magnified by rivalry between Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and confederates like Sextus Pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. One modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to 31 BC, including the Spartacus rebellion, eight years before Horace's birth.Odes 1-3 were the next focus for his artistic creativity. He adapted their forms and themes from Greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries BC. The fragmented nature of the Greek world had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the Treasury in Rome to his own estate in the Sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.
