Horace

Name: Horace
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521587662
Price: 6050 KES
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ISBN: 9780521587662

by Horace

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

ISBN-10 0521587662

ISBN-13 9780521587662

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 23rd, 2011

Print length 314 Pages

Weight 402 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.70 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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An edition with introduction and commentary of Horace's Carmen Saeculare and fourth book of Odes. Horace's return to lyric combines poems focusing alternately on the political and the personal, revealing a dynamic tension between the two. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as being important for scholars.

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 and commentary (the first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century) to each of the poems, exploring their status as separate lyric artefacts and their place in the larger web of the book. The edition is intended primarily for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, but is also important for scholars.

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