Horace's odes / Richard Tarrant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarrant, R. J. (Richard John), 1945- author.

Series:

Oxford approaches to classical literature.

Oxford approaches to classical literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace. Carmina.

Horace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Horace's body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice - usually detached, often ironic, always humane - reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. This text introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace's career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace's best modern translators.

Contents:

Introduction: Reading the Odes Today

Horace's Life

Before the Odes

To the Cool Grove: The Ascent to Lyric

Odes 1-3: The Collection

Three Odes

Friendship and Advice

Amatory Poems

Political Poems

After the Odes I: The Book of Epistles

Lyric Revisited: The Carmen saeculare and the Fourth Book of Odes

After the Odes II: The Literary Epistles

Reception of the Odes: From Propertius to Seamus Heaney.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-751516-9

0-19-515676-5

0-19-751517-7

0-19-803562-4