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Paperback Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare Book

ISBN: 0521587662

ISBN13: 9780521587662

Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare

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The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same...

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