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Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare
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Paperback. The first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Editor(s): Thomas, Richard. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 37.
The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same time provided an impulse towards the nostalgia represented by the poet's private world. Professor Thomas provides an introduction ... Read more
The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same time provided an impulse towards the nostalgia represented by the poet's private world. Professor Thomas provides an introduction ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521587662
SKU
V9780521587662
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About Horace
Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests are generally focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, particularly that of Augustan Rome, intertextuality, translation and translation theory, the reception of classical literature in all periods, and the works of Bob Dylan. Recent books include Reading Virgil and ... Read more
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