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Odes and Epodes

Door Horace

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#422099-YF14
Titel	Odes and Epodes
Auteur	Horace
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0674996097
ISBN13	9780674996090
Taal	Engels, Overig
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered red cloth, edited and translated by Niall Rudd, IX,(1),350,(4) pages, reprinted, text in Latin and English, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 33.
Samenvatting	Monumental verse. The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes boasts a faithful and fluid translation and reflects current scholarship. Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of Odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the Odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; s... (Lees verder)peaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horace's seventeen Epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the Odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; the tone is only occasionally aggressive. "In his language he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; Niall Rudd's translation reflects his different voices.
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