This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem
commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral
performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is
the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of
presentation are known, and it is the only lyric of Horace we can
be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers
a close and sensitive reading of this hymn, shedding new light on
the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources
Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a
public ritual. A rich and compelling work, this poem is a
masterpiece, Putnam shows, and it represents a crucial link in the
development of Rome's outstanding lyric poet.
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