[PDF] Satires And Epistles eBook

Author : Horace
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Epistolary poetry, Latin
ISBN : 9780393044799

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Horace is perhaps best remembered as the lyric poet of the Odes, and consequently as the inventor of the form named the Horatian Ode after him. But his achievement is more various than the Odes and Epodes suggest.

Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199203543

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A collection of articles representing some of the finest writing on Horace's satires (Sermones) and epistles (Epistulae) over the past fifty years. Several have previously only been accessible in specialist journals, while five appear here for the first time in English translation.

Author : Horace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1107683742

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Originally published in 1888, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Horace's Epistulae. Distinguished classicist Shuckburgh includes a biography of the poet and commentaries on each of the 20 poems in the book, as well as a brief synopsis of each letter. This book will be of value to anyone interested in Horace or in Augustan poetry more generally.

Author : Horace
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191620157

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'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and Horace's pervasive humanity. They influenced not only Persius and Juvenal but the long tradition of English satire, from Ben Jonson to W. H. Auden. These new prose translations by John Davie perfectly capture the ribald style of the original. In the Epistles, Horace uses the form of letters to his friends, acquaintances, foremen, and even the emperor to explore questions of philosophy and how to live a good life; and in 'The Art of Poetry' (the Ars poetica), he gives advice on poetic style that informed the work of writers and dramatists for centuries. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2024-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368944894

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Author : Daniel Hooley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470777087

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This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts. Takes account of recent critical approaches. Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject. Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.