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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
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’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 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 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.
Abstract. The extensive Horace translation in Bodleian MS Rawlinson poetry 104 has been little noticed, but it may constitute the first full English version of the Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare. Its author is here identified and the likely circumstances of its composition examined.
