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Satires

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Description for Satires Paperback. Translator(s): Svarlien, John. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.

The Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles: philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes; portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors; jibes, dialogue, travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness, however, the poems both illuminate and bear the marks of a momentous event in world history, one in which Horace himself played an active role--the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Principate.

John Svarlien's lively blank-verse translation reflects the wide range of styles and tones deployed throughout Horace's eighteen sermons ... Read more

David Mankin's Introduction offers a brief account of the political upheavals in which Horace participated as well as the social setting in which his Satires were produced, and points up hallmarks of the poet's distinctive brand of satire. His detailed commentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at Roman society and an often between-the-lines examination of a key work of one of Rome's sharpest observers.

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Product Details

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
267g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781603848442
SKU
V9781603848442
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About Horace
John Svarlien is Professor of Classics, Transylvania University. David Mankin is Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University.

Reviews for Satires
This work will be a welcome addition to course reading lists, as it does justice to Horace's misleadingly simple verse. Svarlien's rhythmic lines go down lightly and easily
as he renders Horace's phrase, he 'writes like people talk,' yet it is a talk that jars and provokes. Mankin's concise and highly readable notes will be as useful to scholars as to ... Read more

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