Horace: Odes Book I - Odes Book I

Informationen zum Autor Roland Mayer is Professor of Classics at King's College London. Klappentext In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role for lyric poetry in contemporary Rome. The collection of thirty-eight poems is therefore a dazzling feat of poetic appropriation and innovation, a blend of the public and the private voice of the poet. Classic Greek songs are evoked so as to provide a springboard for reflections on moral and political issues, for the praises of gods and men, friends and public figures, for celebration of love and drinking. This edition will enable students and their instructors to enter and enjoy Horace's lyric world. Zusammenfassung The first book of odes is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role for lyric poetry in contemporary Rome. This edition encourages students and scholars to appreciate Horace's achievement as a lyric poet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Lyric impulse and lyric challenge; 2. Technical challenges of lyric; 3. The architecture of the ode; 4. The arrangement of the book; 5. Dates of composition and publication; 6. Transmission of the text and the tradition of comment; 7. Interpretation: a note.

Product details

• Authors: Horace
• Assisted by: Roland Mayer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521854733
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85473-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets