Horace

Odes Book III

A. J. Woodman

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Cambridge University Press
09 December 2021

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age, and concludes with the statement of his achievement: he has produced for his Roman readers a body of lyric poetry to rival the great lyric poets of Greece, a monument which will last as long as Rome itself. The present volume aims to place Horace's Odes in their literary and historical context, to explain his Latin, to articulate his thought, and to attempt to elucidate his brilliance. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.

Edited by: A. J. Woodman
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781108740548
ISBN 10: 1108740545
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; Abbreviations and references; Introduction: Politics and poetry; Book 3; Vocabulary; Models and metres; 'Artiste de sons'; Scholarship; The text; Q. HORATI FLACCI CARMINVM LIBER III; Commentary; Select bibliography; Indexes: General; Latin words.

A.J. Woodman is an Emeritus Professor at both Durham University and the University of Virginia and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published almost thirty books on a wide range of texts and topics in Latin literature, including editions of Tacitus within the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics and an edited volume, with Denis Feeney, Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002).

Reviews for Horace: Odes Book III

'W. brings the ancient text to new life on every page and provokes insight into (and admiration for) this 'exceptional and much loved author' even when the reader may disagree with the commentator. This book proves (if proof were needed) that a lifetime reading Horace is indeed a lifetime very well spent.' John Godwin, Classics for All