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| Genre/Form: | Readers Poetry Poetry |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Horace (0065?-0008? av. J.-C.). |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Horace.; David Mankin |
| ISBN: | 0521394694 9780521394697 052139774X 9780521397742 |
| OCLC Number: | 31241777 |
| Language Note: | Text in Latin, commentary in English, with some Classical Greek in appendices. |
| Description: | vii, 321 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. |
| Other Titles: | Epodae |
| Responsibility: | Horace ; edited by David Mankin. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon and in particular with the seventh-century Greek poet Archilochus. In none of Horace's works is his originality more brilliantly displayed than in this creative appropriation of a hitherto unexploited Greek genre.
David Mankin's introduction and commentary examines all aspects of Horace's relationship with his models and of the technical accomplishment of his verse; it also gives help with linguistic problems. His edition places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context: Rome at the time of its greatest crisis, the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate.
. Students and scholars alike will welcome this commentary, only the second in any language since the 1930s and the only one providing a full and detailed interpretation in English.
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