A Commentary on Horace Odes Book III [Hardcover]

This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on theOdes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism, and how he wrote within a literary tradition without losing a highly personal voice. Though the book is not intended for beginners, the editors aim throughout at clarity.

General Introduction
1. Horace's early life
2. The date of Odes I-III
3. The `Roman Odes'
4. Horace and Augustus
5. Maecenas and the other addressees
6. Horace's `love-poems'
7. Religion in Horace
8. The meaning of the author
9. Ambiguity
10. Person and persona
11. Genre
12. Style
13. Structure
14. The arrangement of the book
15. The text
16. The ancient commentators
17. Metre
18. Bibliography
Commentary
Indexes

Latinists have been waiting for this for almost thirty years.... Anyone who loves Latin will relishA Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III. It has, after all, been worth the wait.... The strengths of Nisbet and Rudd's new commentary are very great, and are a function of the extraordinary attention to detail throughout. Its sheer utility value is very high.... Even if we must face the fact that we will never have a commentary on the fourth book from Nisbet's hand, we shall be forever grateful that Rudd was able to make possible the appearance of this volume, a cap to their distinguished careers, and a monument that will endure beside the other two. --Times Literary Supplement

Much hard thinking lies behind Horace's verse, which Nietzsche called 'lapidary.' Nabokov, that connoisseur of commentary, would have cherished this commentary, as will anyone who reads poetry as it should be read--SLOWLY. --Tom D'Evelyn,Providence Journal(Favorite Books of 2004)

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