Bøker av Horace

The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Now, for the first time, leading poets from America, England, andIreland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into English in aseries of new translations that dazzle as poems while illuminating theimagination of one of literary history's towering figures.

The first substantial commentary on Odes II for a generation, essential for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of Horace's highly popular work, as well as important for scholars of Latin literature and lyric poetry. New insights are offered into the poems' interpretation, and textual analysis proposes answers to long-standing questions.

Horace today is perhaps best remembered as the lyric poet of the Odes, as consequently as the inventor of the form named the Horatian Ode after him. But his achievement is more various than the Odes and Epodes suggest.

Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil.

This volume collects the entirety of Horace's lyric poetry, comprising all 103 odes, the "Carmen Saeculare" and the earlier epodes.