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OverviewThe Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles: philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes; portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors; jibes, dialogue,travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness, however, the poems both illuminate and bear the marks of a momentous event in world history, one in which Horace himself played an active role-the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Principate. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Horace , John Svarlien , David MankinPublisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.256kg ISBN: 9781603848442ISBN 10: 1603848444 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis work will be a welcome addition to course reading lists, as it does justice to Horace's misleadingly simple verse. Svarlien's rhythmic lines go down lightly and easilyas he renders Horace's phrase, he 'writes like people talk,' yet it is a talk that jars and provokes. Mankin's concise and highly readable notes will be as useful to scholars as to new readers of Horace: they are packed with cultural background, stylistic commentary, useful cross-references, and appealing suggestions on interpretation. Catherine Keane, Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis Author InformationJohn Svarlien is Professor of Classics, Transylvania University. David Mankin is Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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