The Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles:
philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes;
portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors;
jibes, dialogue, travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects
in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness,
however, the poems both illuminate and bear the marks of a
momentous event in world history, one in which Horace himself
played an active role--the death of the Roman Republic and the
birth of the Principate. John Svarlien's lively blank-verse
translation reflects the wide range of styles and tones deployed
throughout Horace's eighteen sermons or conversations, deftly
reproducing their distinctive humor while tracking the poet's
changing mannerisms and moods. David Mankin's Introduction offers a
brief account of the political upheavals in which Horace
participated as well as the social setting in which his Satires
were produced, and points up hallmarks of the poet's distinctive
brand of satire. His detailed commentary offers a behind-the-scenes
look at Roman society and an often between-the-lines examination of
a key work of one of Rome's sharpest observers.
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