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Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica

Horace ; with an Englsih translation by H. Rushton Fairclough

(The Loeb classical library, 194)

Harvard University Press, 1991

Revised and reprinted

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Reprint. First published 1929

Latin and English on opposite pages

Includes index

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内容説明

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65 8 BCE) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the Treasury, and began to write poetry. Maecenas, lover of literature, to whom Virgil and Varius introduced Horace in 39, became his friend and made him largely independent by giving him a farm. After 30 Horace knew and aided with his pen the emperor Augustus, who after Virgil's death in 19 engaged him to celebrate imperial affairs in poetry. Horace refused to become Augustus's private secretary and died a few months after Maecenas. Both lyric (in various metres) and other work (in hexameters) was spread over the period 40 10 or 9 BCE. It is Roman in spirit, Greek in technique. In the two books of Satires Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of Epistles are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the Ars Poetica. The Epodes in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace called his satires and epistles) but also look towards the famous Odes, in four books, in the old Greek lyric metres used with much skill. Some are national odes about public affairs; some are pleasant poems of love and wine; some are moral letters; all have a rare perfection. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Odes and Epodes is in volume number 33.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA27734439
  • ISBN
    • 0674992148
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    englat
  • 原本言語コード
    lat
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxx, 508 p.
  • 大きさ
    17 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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