Horace

Odes Book II

Horace, Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)

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Cambridge University Press
20 April 2017

Poetry by individual poets; Latin

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The introduction focusses on the particular features of this poetic book and its place in Horace's poetic career and in the literary environment of its particular time in the 20s BCE. The text and commentary both look back to the long and distinguished tradition of Horatian scholarship and incorporate the many advances of recent research and thinking about Latin literature. The volume proposes some new solutions to established problems of text and interpretation, and in general improves modern understanding of a widely read ancient text which has a firm place in college and university courses as well as in classical research.

By: Horace
Edited by: Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9781107600904
ISBN 10: 1107600901
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 20 April 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; Introduction; 1. Date of Odes II; 2. Horace's literary career; 3. Characteristics of Odes II; 4. Literary intertexts; 5. Internal architecture of poems; 6. Style; 7. Metre; 8. Text; 9. Abbreviations; Q. Horati Flacci Carminvm Liber Secvndvs; Commentary; Bibliography; Index.

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, and has written extensively on the works and reception of Horace. His previous publications include The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge, 2007), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007) and Horace (Cambridge, 2014).

Reviews for Horace: Odes Book II

'… replete with learning and generous in detail … the natural first port of call for any student whose focus is on this book of the Odes' Colin Leach, Classics for All 'This valuable edition and commentary is an essential resource for students and scholars working on Horace, and offers a lucid and effectively critical reading of the text and the history of the interpretation of Horace's Odes.' Nicoletta Bruno, Exemplaria Classica