Horace, Satires, epistles, ars poetica / Loeb Classical Library 194

Loeb Classical Library 194, Horace, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough.

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  • Auteur : Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
  • Volumes : 1 volume.
  • Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Etat / Condition : very good condition / très bon état.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : XXX, 508 pp.
  • Editeur : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1991.

    Latin and English on opposite pages. Bilingue Latin et anglais.

    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the Treasury, and began to write poetry. Maecenas, lover of literature, to whom Virgil and Varius introduced Horace in 39, became his friend and made him largely independent by giving him a farm. After 30 Horace knew and aided with his pen the emperor Augustus, who after Virgil’s death in 19 engaged him to celebrate imperial affairs in poetry. Horace refused to become Augustus’s private secretary and died a few months after Maecenas. Both lyric (in various metres) and other work (in hexameters) was spread over the period 40–10 or 9 BCE. It is Roman in spirit, Greek in technique.

    In the two books of Satires, Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of Epistles are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the Ars Poetica.

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.

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Condition Used - Very Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1991
Year 1991
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Horace
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
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