Horace: Satires Book II

Highly accessible as a tool for Latin students, and a serious contribution to the study of Roman poetry.

List of contents

Introduction; Q. HORATI FLACCI SERMONUM LIBER SECUNDUS; Commentary.

About the author

Kirk Freudenburg is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor in the Department of Classics at Yale University. His research has long focused on the social life of Roman letters, especially on the unique cultural encodings that structure and inform Roman ideas of poetry, and the practical implementation of those ideas in specific poetic forms, especially satire. His main publications include: The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (1993), Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge, 2001), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge, 2005), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Satires and Epistles (2009), and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (Cambridge, 2017), co-edited with Shadi Bartsch and Cedric Littlewood.

Summary

The satires in Book II are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. For intermediate and advanced students, this edition explains difficult issues of grammar, syntax, word-choice, genre, period, and style. It also offers fresh insights into the unique aspects of Horatian satire.

Product details

• Authors: Horace
• Assisted by: Kirk Freudenburg (Editor), Kirk (Yale University Freudenburg (Editor), Freudenburg Kirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780521449472
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44947-2
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval