The Odes and Epodes
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The Odes and Epodes
（The Loeb classical library, 33）
Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1988
Rev. ed
- : American
- : British
Available at 12 libraries
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Latin text, parallel English translation
Includes index
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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Horace (b. 65 B.C.) claims the lyric poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus as models for his celebrated odes. His four books cover a wide range of moods and topics: friendship is the dominant theme of about a third of the poems; a great many deal with love and amorous situations, often amusingly; others deal with patriotic and political themes. The seventeen epodes, which Horace called iambi, were also inspired by a Greek model: the seventh century iambic poetry of Archilochus. As in the odes, love and politics are frequent themes; some of the epodes also display mockery and ridicule, of a harsher variety than we find in Horace's satires.
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