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Horace - (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)hôrˈəs, 65 b.c.–8 b.c., Latin poet, one of the greatest of lyric poets, b. Venusia, S Italy. He studied at Rome and Athens and, joining Brutus and the republicans, fought (42 b.c.) at Philippi. Returning to Rome, he was introduced by Vergil to Maecenas, who became (c.38 b.c.) his friend and constant benefactor. Maecenas gave him a


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    The Complete Odes and Epodes » Read Now

    by Horace, David West. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere...
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    The Poetry of Criticism: Horace, Epistles II, and Ars Poetica » Read Now

    by Ross S. Kilpatrick. 128 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...POETRY OF CRITICISM THE POETRY OF CRITICISM Horace, Epistles II and Ars Poetica Ross S. Kilpatrick...O-88864-145-7 bound . - ISBN O-88864-146-X pbk. 1.Horace. Epistulae. 2...
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    The Structure of Horace's Odes » Read Now

    by N. E. Collinge. 158 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...THE STRUCTURE OF HORACES ODES -ii- THE STRUCTURE OF HORACES ODES BY N. E. COLLINGE Senior Lecturer in Classics...COLLINGE PREFACE THE appearance of another book on Horace...
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    Unity and Design in Horace's Odes » Read Now

    by Matthew S. Santirocco. 251 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Horace's Narrative Odes » Read Now

    by Michele Lowrie. 382 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book analyzes the different use of lyric and narrative in Horace's Odes. On the formal level, numerous odes contain narration. Together they tell a larger story about the aesthetic and political demands on the poet's development as a lyrist. At issue is whether Horace can ever truly become a poet of praise.
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    Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace » Read Now

    by Denis Feeney, Tony Woodman. 271 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This collection of freshly commissioned essays covers the entire range of the works of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. The essays introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry, as well as a number of different contexts--political, philosophical...
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    Homage to Horace: A Bimillenary Celebration » Read Now

    by S. J. Harrison. 384 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary international classical scholarship. The seventeen brand new pieces have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the poet's death, and range from...
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    Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace » Read Now

    by Dirk Obbink. 324 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical...
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    Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes » Read Now

    by Ronnie Ancona. 190 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...TIME and the Erotic in Horaces Odes TIME and the Erotic in Horaces Odes Ronnie Ancona Duke University Press Durham...185 PREFACE This study of time and the erotic in...
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    Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage » Read Now

    by Phebe Lowell Bowditch. 281 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and...
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    Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry (Chap. 4 "Suck It and See: Horace, Epode 8" and Chap. 8 "Be Alert (Your Country Needs Lerts): Horace, Satires 1.9") » Read Now

    by John Henderson. 374 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Taking particular plays and poems from Roman comic theatre and the genre of Latin satire, this book finds Rome sending up Roman culture - making a mess of drama, jesting at rustic gaucherie, caricaturing the cult of masculine aggression. Writing Down Rome explores the robust poetic of...
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    Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Chap. 1 "Horace") » Read Now

    by Kirk Freudenburg. 289 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to...
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    Fifty Key Classical Authors ("Horace" begins on p. 260) » Read Now

    by Rhiannon Ash, Alison Sharrock. 421 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and...

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