Horace: Odes II: Vatis Amici
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 1998
- ISBN 9780198721628
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages180 pages
- Size 224x143x16 mm
- Weight 352 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The three books of Horace's Odes were published in 23 BC and gained him his reputation as the greatest Latin lyric poet. This book provides the Latin text (from the Oxford Classical Text series) of the second book together with a translation which attempts to be close to the Latin while catching the flavour of the original, and a commentary which explains the poems and should be of interest to students of Latin literature and history, as well as lovers of poetry.
MoreLong description:
In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the three books published together in 23 BC the second is in many ways the most rewarding. The first ode, for instance, looks back at the civil wars fought by Caesar and Pompey, and by Octavian and Antony, from the point of view of Horace and his friend Pollio who both took part in them. There are also poems of friendship which give insight into the social and intellectual tone of the age of the first Roman emperor Augustus, and Horace's unique, elusive sense of humour is in evidence throughout.
This book contains the Latin text (from the Oxford Classical Text), a translation which attempts to be close to the Latin while catching as much as possible of the flavour of the original, and a commentary which tries to suggest how these poems work as poetry.
David West takes a refreshing approach insofar as academic questions are sobered by looking at how the poems work as poems.
