Commentary on Horace: Odes: Book II

Zusatztext `One cannot praise sufficiently highly the assiduous scholarship that has gone into the making of the commentary.'JACT Bulletin Klappentext This commentary provides the reader with the background knowledge of conventional forms and topics needed to appreciate fully every aspect of the poems. The editors focus particularly on word play! literary parallels! and stylistic nuances. Zusammenfassung Aims to provide the reader with the background knowledge of conventional forms and topics needed to fully appreciate every aspect of Horace's "Odes". The text focuses on "Book II" of the "Odes", which contains poems predominantly concerned with philosophy, conduct and friendship.

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• Authors: Margaret Hubbard, R. G. M. Nisbet, R. G. M. (Corpus Christi Professor of Lati Nisbet, R. G. M. Hubbard Nisbet, Robin G. Nisbet
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.1991
• EAN: 9780198147718
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814771-8
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Commentary on Horace; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies