Horace: Odes Book III
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:9th Dec '21
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A very full modern commentary on these poems which explains their language and thought for students, teachers and professional scholars.
Aimed primarily at undergraduates and postgraduates but will also be useful to their teachers and to professional scholars. Its principal aims are to explain Horace's Latin and to elucidate the articulation of his odes. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators.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.
'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
'It is W.'s great merit to have approached these familiar poems with a fresh eye and to have confronted their many interpretative challenges in an independent spirit. Not every divergence from received opinion commands assent, but one must admire W.'s willingness to swim against the tide … This commentary is brimful of novel ideas and interpretations. I find a number of them unconvincing, but others may react more sympathetically; whatever view one takes, engaging with Tony Woodman's innovative thoughts is always an invigorating experience, and one that anyone interested in Horace will want to have.' Richard Tarrant, Exemplaria Classica
'Fresh insights and new points of comparison are introduced on nearly every page, even as the literary and historical contexts are fully explored, and the difficulties of Horace's Latin are carefully explained.' Kirk Freudenburg, Journal of Roman Studies
ISBN: 9781108481243
Dimensions: 223mm x 140mm x 27mm
Weight: 610g
410 pages