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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
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.
Epode 16, Horace’s famous decline poem about Rome before Actium, has long been viewed as a cynical response to Vergil’s prophecy of a returning Golden Age in Eclogue 4. In this article, I argue that there is another, unrecognized intertext for Epode 16—Pindar’s Olympian 2—to which Horace’s bleak poem alludes in a “window reference ...
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.
Ajax (son of Oileus), led the Locrian contingent at Troy, I.15.19; Ep. 10.14. Ajax (son of Telamon), a major figure in the Greek army at Troy, II.4.5. Alban, referring to the hilly region to the southeast of Rome, III.23.11 (meadows); IV.1.19 (lake), 11.2 (wine), C.S. 54 (axes).
