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It was night, and a cloudless sky, and the moon was shining. Another generation now’s been ground down by civil war, ‘Now, now, to your powerful arts I at last surrender, Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
Horace began writing his Epodes after the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. He had fought as a military tribune in the losing army of Caesar's assassins and his fatherly estate was confiscated in the aftermath of the battle.
The seventh epode, Horace s impassioned denunciation of Rome s rush to civil war, proved popular in a number of different contexts (pp. 225 6), as did the fourth, appropriated in the late nineteenth century not only to decry the social and political
My analysis traces Horace’s vocabulary of purity and pollution in light of Lennon’s recent work (2014) on pollution in ancient Rome and Bowditch’s study (2001) of ritual and tragic discourse in Horace. In Epodes 7 and 16 we see a focus on the scelus fraternae necis, which raises the question of Remus’ murder and the responsibility of ...
His edition places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context: Rome at the time of its greatest crisis, the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate.
Horace's anguished lament over the civil wars, and 9, his joyous response to the victory at Actium—and so on into the second half of the book.5 Given this ubiquity of movement and change, given these dynamic contrarieties, campaign against Sextus Pompeius (for a response, see S. Watson, "Two Nautical Points: 1. Horace, Epode 1. 1-2; 2.
Horace situates his Epodes as the successor to the Archaic tradition of iambic poetry and its reception. The assessment of the collection at Epistles 1.19 (previously cited) indicates a conscientiousness of the genre’s remoteness.
