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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
madness. In Epode , 1 7 madness is part of Horace's punishment - almost certainly a variation on Stesichorus' notion, since he was punished only with physical blindness. The punishment motif (B5) is fairly straightforward in Epode , 1 7, where Horace is punished. In Odes , I, 16 however the punishment is wittily transferred to the offending iambi.
Somewhere in the western seas the fabled islands of the blest await us, reserved by Jupiter for the saving remnant of the golden age in an age of iron. Cf. Epode 7. The poem may have been written at the outbreak of the Perusine war, B.c. 41.
The Epodes (Latin: Epodi or Epodon liber; also called Iambi) are a collection of iambic poems written by the Roman poet Horace. They were published in 30 BC and form part of his early work alongside the Satires.
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 refers to Archilochus in Epodes 6.13, where he couples him with Hipponax, who in the sixth century made a famous attack on the sculptor Bupalus. The “iambic” writers did not confine themselves to the iambic metre, and the same is true of Horace.
BOOK REVIEW. Horace’s Epodes: Context, Intertexts, and Reception, ed. Philippa Bather and Claire Stocks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xiv + 279 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-874605-8. £70 (hardback) L. B. T. Houghton1. Published online: 25 January 2017 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017.
