Horace: Odes Book II

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, and has written extensively on the works and reception of Horace. His previous publications include The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge, 2007), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007) and Horace (Cambridge, 2014). Klappentext The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace's Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature. Zusammenfassung The first substantial commentary on Odes II for a generation! essential for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of Horace's highly popular work! as well as important for scholars of Latin literature and lyric poetry. New insights are offered into the poems' interpretation! and textual analysis proposes answers to long-standing questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Q. Horati Flacci Carminvm Liber Secvndvs; Commentary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Horace, Stephen Horace
• Assisted by: Stephen Harrison (Editor), Stephen John Harrison (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107012912
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01291-2
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; POETRY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Poetry / poems by individual poets