Horace: Odes Book III

Aimed primarily at undergraduates and postgraduates but will also be useful to their teachers and to professional scholars. Its principal aims are to explain Horace's Latin and to elucidate the articulation of his odes. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.

List of contents

Preface; Abbreviations and references; Introduction: Politics and poetry; Book 3; Vocabulary; Models and metres; 'Artiste de sons'; Scholarship; The text; Q. HORATI FLACCI CARMINVM LIBER III; Commentary; Select bibliography; Indexes: General; Latin words.

About the author

A.J. Woodman is an Emeritus Professor at both Durham University and the University of Virginia and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published almost thirty books on a wide range of texts and topics in Latin literature, including editions of Tacitus within the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics and an edited volume, with Denis Feeney, Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002).

Summary

Aimed primarily at undergraduates and postgraduates but will also be useful to their teachers and to professional scholars. Its principal aims are to explain Horace's Latin and to elucidate the articulation of his odes. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.

Product details

• Authors: A. J. (University of Virginia) Woodman
• Assisted by: A. J. Woodman (Editor), A. J. (University of Virginia) Woodman (Editor), Woodman A. J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108740548
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74054-8
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets