(Library ebook) Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library)
❀ Horace ❀
| #1035129 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2004-06-01 | 2004-07-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 6.66 x.87 x4.44l,.61 | File Name: 0674996097 | 368 pages |
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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 thought. Here 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. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sapp...
