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The complete Odes and Satires of Horace

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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later.

Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation - in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture.

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English
Pages
353

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The complete Odes and Satires of Horace
1999, Princeton University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-[355]).

Published in
Princeton, N.J
Series
The Lockert library of poetry in translation

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
874/.01
Library of Congress
PA6394 .A54 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 353 p. ;
Number of pages
353

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL373473M
ISBN 10
0691004277, 0691004285
LCCN
98035158
Goodreads
895964
132890

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