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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
The motif of the Fortunate Isles may have been suggested to Horace by the tradition that Sertorius after his defeat purposed to take refuge in the Canary Islands. Plut. Sert. 8; Sallust, fr. 1.61.
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 The Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare. A new complete downloadable English translation of the Odes and other poetry translations including Lorca, Petrarch, Propertius, and Mandelshtam.
Horace’s The Epodes is a collection of 17 poems utilising a variety of metres that were largely influenced by the Greek poet Archilochus. These poems combine lyric and iambic traditions, often exploring themes of love, politics, and social commentary.
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.
