
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...

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...


"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...
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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...


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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...
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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...
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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...

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,...
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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...


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