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Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's own... Read Full Overview

The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social... Read Full Overview

"What is special about Matthews' Horatian Satires is the immediacy of the idiom, the sense of discovery of the actual moment, the quickness of the turn of the line. . . . Horace's words, in Matthews' hands, become alive, just-written, and immortal again because they are so new."--Stanley... Read Full Overview

The poet William Matthews' lively, earthy, humorous translations of Horace's classic work. This is the last work Matthews completed before his death in 1997. Stanley Plumly has commented that "Horace's words, in Mattthews' hands, become alive, just-written, and immortal again... Read Full Overview

Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit TREDITION CLASSICS... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
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Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit der Buchreihe... Read Full Overview

Les Satires regroupent une vingtaine de titres designes dans les manuscrits par le terme de sermones qui correspond au grec diatribai , entretiens . Ce genre mixte, fluide et libre a particulierement seduit les poetes latins, qui, de Lucilius a Juvenal, y excellerent. Horace... Read Full Overview

Da es zu Horaz' Zeiten (65-8 v. Chr.) nicht mehr ohne Lebensgefahr m glich war, f hrende r mische Politiker direkt und namentlich zu verspotten, wickelt Horaz seine Kritik in Humor ein: "ridente dicere verum". Die Satiren sind eine Sammlung hexametrischer Gedichte vermischten... Read Full Overview

Ancient Rome had no shortage of great writers and poets, including Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Tacitus, and countless others. One of the great Roman poets who is usually part of the conversation is Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known simply as Horace (65-8 B.C.). In fact,... Read Full Overview

La satire en vers tient une place a part parmi les genres poetiques et apparait comme une veritable creation romaine: Lucilius, Horace, Perse ou Juvenal s'y essayerent avec talent. Dans ces deux livres de sermones, d' entretiens a batons rompus, proches parfois... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview