Horace: Odes Book I

by Roland Mayer and Horatius

In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role for lyric poetry in contemporary Rome. The collection of thirty-eight poems is therefore a dazzling feat of poetic appropriation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521671019
• ISBN13: 9780521671019
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"