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 easilyas 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 morenew readers of Horace: they are packed with cultural background, stylistic commentary, useful cross-references, and appealing suggestions on interpretation. Catherine Keane, Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis Svarlien's handling of blank verse is supple, vigorous, and melodic. He is able to devise a style of verse that is appropriately conversational and varied. Hard to imagine there will soon be a better translation of the Satires . Mankin's introduction is lucid and extremely informative, and his execution of the end-notes is brilliant.
W. R. Johnson, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, University of Chicago Clear, lively, readable, with fast-paced iambics creating a fluent blank verse. Useful apparatus too.
Rachel Hadas, Department of English, Rutgers University Show Less