This fully annotated Latin edition, by Daniel H. Garrison, of Horace's
Epodes, Odes, and
Carmen Saeculare is the first comprehensive English commentary on these works since 1903. The full text of the
Epodes is included and placed before the
Odes, as it was originally written and published. Garrison offers help with meter, vocabulary, and difficult points of grammar. For advanced students, he place Horace against the background of archaic and Hellenistic Greek poetry, demonstrates the poet's debt to Catullus, and illuminates Horace's relation to his contemporaries, particularly Virgil. Biographical information and a discussion of Horace's literary persona expand our view of the poet and his works. Appendices on meter, persons mentioned in the poems, and technical terminology provide what readers end to understand topical and mythological references, rhetorical conventions, and poetic artistry.
About the AuthorDaniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classical at Northwestern University. He is the author of
Mild Frenzy: A Reading of the Hellenistic Love Epigram, The Language of Virgil,
The Student's Catullus, 3rd ed., and
Greek Sexual Culture.Book InformationISBN 9780806130576
Author Daniel H. GarrisonFormat Paperback
Page Count 398
Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm