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Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) by Horace Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) by Horace Ebook Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Series:::: Loeb Classical Library (Book 33)+++Hardcover:::: 368 pages+++Publisher:::: Harvard University Press (June 1, 2004)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 9780674996090+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0674996090+++ASIN:::: 0674996097+++Product Dimensions::::4.2 x 1 x 6.5 inches++++++ ISBN10 9780674996090 ISBN13 978-0674996 Download here >> Description: The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poets Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text.Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horaces seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; here the tone is generally that of satirical lampoons. In his language he is triumphantly adventurous, Quintilian said of Horace; this new translation reflects his different voices. While Niall Rudd is a renowned classicist, please be aware that this is a translation in which Horaces sometime embrace of homosexual lyric is suppressed. For example, in Book I, Ode 26, Rudd omits the masculine pronoun, which is explicit in the Latin, so that the reader is allowed to assume that Lamia is a womans name, when, in fact, Horace is writing about a young man.I decry this Bowdlerization. Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) in Literature and Fiction pdf books Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) Classical Library) and Epodes (Loeb Odes Perhaps all I really needed to say was that, after returning from lunch, I immediately hopped online and purchased Sendaks original along with the movie. Jae usually writes very engaging books; this is anything but. The ending put a huge smile on my face. 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