Satires and Epistles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horace.

Contributor:

Davie, John.

Series:

Oxford World's Classics

Standardized Title:

Satirae. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace--Translations into English.

Horace.

Epistolary poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Verse satire, Latin--Translations into English.

Epistolary poetry, Latin.

Verse satire, Latin.

Local Subjects:

Epistolary poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Horace--Translations into English.

Verse satire, Latin--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given bythe nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems are stuffed

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Chronological Survey""; ""SATIRES""; ""BOOK 1""; ""Satire 1""; ""Satire 2""; ""Satire 3""; ""Satire 4""; ""Satire 5""; ""Satire 6""; ""Satire 7""; ""Satire 8""; ""Satire 9""; ""Satire 10""; ""BOOK 2""; ""Satire 1""; ""Satire 2""; ""Satire 3""; ""Satire 4""; ""Satire 5""; ""Satire 6""; ""Satire 7""; ""Satire 8""; ""EPISTLES""; ""BOOK 1""; ""Epistle 1""; ""Epistle 2""; ""Epistle 3""; ""Epistle 4""; ""Epistle 5""; ""Epistle 6""; ""Epistle 7""; ""Epistle 8""; ""Epistle 9""; ""Epistle 10""; ""Epistle 11""

""Epistle 12""""Epistle 13""; ""Epistle 14""; ""Epistle 15""; ""Epistle 16""; ""Epistle 17""; ""Epistle 18""; ""Epistle 19""; ""Epistle 20""; ""BOOK 2""; ""Epistle 1: To Augustus""; ""Epistle 2: To Florus""; ""Epistle to the Pisos: The Art of Poetry""; ""Explanatory Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-181953-0

0-19-161768-7

OCLC:

769344009