The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus
moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural
settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical
Library edition of the great Roman poet's "Odes and Epodes," a
fluid translation facing the Latin text.
Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of
lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to
the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in
a Roman context. His four books of odes cover a wide range of moods
and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values
of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods.
But most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising
friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often
amusingly. Horace's seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were
also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the odes they were
inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of
Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; here
the tone is generally that of satirical lampoons. "In his language
he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; this
new translation reflects his different voices.
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