The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace
was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six
years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to
this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The
hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of
the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the
problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same time
provided an impulse towards the nostalgia represented by the poet's
private world. Professor Thomas provides an introduction and
commentary (the first full commentary in English since the
nineteenth century) to each of the poems, exploring their status as
separate lyric artefacts and their place in the larger web of the
book. The edition is intended primarily for upper-level
undergraduates and graduate students, but is also important for
scholars.
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