Horace: Satires Book II
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Part of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Real Author: Horace
- Date Published: February 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521449472
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The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet's anxieties about the limits of satiric free speech in the first poem to the ridiculous excesses of an outrageously overdone dinner party in the last. For students working at intermediate and advanced levels of Latin, this book makes the satires of Horace's second book of Sermones readable by explaining difficult issues of grammar, syntax, word-choice, genre, period, and style. For scholars who already know these poems well, it offers fresh insights into what satire is, and how these poems communicate as uniquely 'Horatian' expressions of the genre.
Read more- This edition contains some of the most difficult but also the most widely read and taught Latin poems
- Explains the difficulties of Horace's Latin for intermediate and advanced students
- The introduction and commentary provide explore the numerous possibilities for interpreting the poems
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- Date Published: February 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521449472
- length: 364 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 137 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Q. HORATI FLACCI SERMONUM LIBER SECUNDUS
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