Ebook {Epub PDF} The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace

 · The Complete Odes and Epodes Oxford World's Classics World's classics: Author: Horace, Translated by: David West: Contributor: David Author: Horace. To increase your bid limit complete identity verification. 5 saved Add to calendar. Item Overview. Description. Horace. THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 4to. 7 volumes bound in 9. Finely bound in full levant with leather onlays (leaves and bunches of grapes) and decoration in gilt. ***** Printed for members. Horace describes himself as a Epicurean, choosing to live on the Sabine farm made possible by his friend, the legendary wealthy Maecenas. In addition to translations of all the Epodes and Odes, West provides a fine introduction to the man, to his works, and to the world of Rome under Augustus/5(86).

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean www.doorway.ru is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text.. Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. The four books of Horace's Odes contained odes in all. This study guide discusses each book as a whole and additionally focuses in-depth on 12 of the most famous odes. Summary. The first book of Horace's Odes, dedicated to his patron and lifelong friend, Gaius Maecenas ( BCE), has 38 poems. Like the other odes, they are addressed to a. This item: Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) by Horace Hardcover. $ Only 19 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping. Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Loeb Classical Library, No. ) (English and Latin Edition) by Horace Hardcover. $

The Complete Odes and Epodes (Classics) - Kindle edition by Horace, Betty Radice, W. Shepherd. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Complete Odes and Epodes (Classics). While the Odes are subtle and allusive, the Epodes are robust and coarse in their celebrations of sex and tirades against political leaders. The Complete Odes and Epodes - Horace - Oxford University Press. This book contains both the Odes and Epodes of Horace, written between about 30 and 13 b.c. 17 short poems make up the Epodes, which were modeled off of the poems of Archilochus. Topics include war (including some very good poems touching on the civil wars and the Roman victory at Actium), love, and abuse.