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Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 50.00This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. Distinguished scholars introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close analysis of the actual text of Horace is placed in several different political, philosophical and historical contexts. more...
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. more...
A Commentary on Horace
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 74.99This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism, and how he wrote within a literary tradition without losing a highly personal voice. Though the book is not intended for beginners, the editors... more...
Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
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Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts
BRILL 2009; US$ 135.00Starting from some central texts of Horace's late poetry this book tries to offer a general picture of Horace's poetry, his political poetry and his relationship with his patrons in particular. It is aimed not only at classicists, but also at students of literature and history. more...
Satires and Epistles
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 8.99What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?'Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona... more...
Satires
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 13.50The Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles: philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes; portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors; jibes, dialogue, travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness, however, the poems both illuminate... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 28.00In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present an assessment of Horace, his work and its themes. more...
Poetic Interplay
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 55.00The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him... more...
Horace
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 74.99This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate. Several classic studies in French, German,... more...
