Nisbet, 9780199288748, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. They speak mainly of the technical difficulty of transferring alien metres and. The reader has to expect comments on the lines of ten other examples of the use. Of all published articles, the following were the most read within the past 12 months. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. A dedication of the first three books of the odes to maecenas. The tenth ode of horaces first book has met wit of critics. In the first book of odes, horace presents himself to his roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the greek lyric tradition. The nisbethubbard commentary on horace odes 2 appeared in 1978. Nisbet and margaret hubbard 1978 a commentary on horace s epodes. In 2004 his commentary on book 3 of horaces odes in collaboration with niall. This commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the odes.
It was large, imm more detailed than the commentary by wickham in the old ninete. Nisbet and margaret hubbard 1970 a commentary on horace s epodes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how horace combined the tact of a courtpoet with a humane individualism, and how he wrote within a literary tradition without losing a highly personal voice. This may vary slightly for effect two beats substituted for three etc. Odes book iii and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle. Paul shorey, commentary on horace, odes, epodes, and carmen. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Excerpt the odes of horace are too familiar to be easily understood. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how horace. Read the fulltext online edition of a commentary on horace.
Some of his ancestors were said to have been lucumones chiefs of arretium, hence the use of regibus here. A clear and comprehensive account of the textual difficulties posed by limen. The commentary includes a large number of parallel passagesshowing how horace plays new variations on old themessections on chronology and meter, and a select bibliography for each ode. The number of syllables most commonly employed in each standard line of the verse is given. Epodes and odes oklahoma series in classical culture, vol 10, latin. Caius cilnius maecenas, for a long time the emperor augustus chief adviser, and a distinguished patron of literature. The national endowment for the humanities provided support for entering this text. This commentary takes critical account of recent wr. Horace s odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood.
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