Horace: Odes Book II

The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace's Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

Horace (Author), Stephen Harrison (Edited by)

9781107600904, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 April 2017

274 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.35 kg

'This valuable edition and commentary is an essential resource for students and scholars working on Horace, and offers a lucid and effectively critical reading of the text and the history of the interpretation of Horace's Odes.' Nicoletta Bruno, Exemplaria Classica

Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The introduction focusses on the particular features of this poetic book and its place in Horace's poetic career and in the literary environment of its particular time in the 20s BCE. The text and commentary both look back to the long and distinguished tradition of Horatian scholarship and incorporate the many advances of recent research and thinking about Latin literature. The volume proposes some new solutions to established problems of text and interpretation, and in general improves modern understanding of a widely read ancient text which has a firm place in college and university courses as well as in classical research.

Preface
Introduction
1. Date of Odes II
2. Horace's literary career
3. Characteristics of Odes II
4. Literary intertexts
5. Internal architecture of poems
6. Style
7. Metre
8. Text
9. Abbreviations
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Commentary
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]