The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace

by Horace

Book Overview

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004285
• ISBN13: 9780691004280
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"