Epodes / Horace ; edited by David Mankin.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Greek and Latin classicsPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.Description: vii, 321 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0521394694
- 052139774X (pbk.)
- Epodae. English
- 871/.01 20
- PA6396 .A1 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-316) and indexes.
The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon and in particular with the seventh-century Greek poet Archilochus. In none of Horace's works is his originality more brilliantly displayed than in this creative appropriation of a hitherto unexploited Greek genre.
David Mankin's introduction and commentary examines all aspects of Horace's relationship with his models and of the technical accomplishment of his verse; it also gives help with linguistic problems. His edition places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context: Rome at the time of its greatest crisis, the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate.
. Students and scholars alike will welcome this commentary, only the second in any language since the 1930s and the only one providing a full and detailed interpretation in English.
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