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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 Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
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.
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.
David Mankin's introduction and commentary examines all aspects of Horace's relationship with his models and of the technical accomplishment of his verse, and places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context while also giving help with linguistic problems.
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)
The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace’s first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
