Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living

by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manual

For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the first time fully reintegrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691195021
• ISBN13: 9780691195025
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"