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This study guide for Horace's The Odes of Horace offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
The Collins Latin Dictionary, for example, includes a good summary. The metres used by Horace in each of the Odes, giving the standard number of syllables per line only, are listed at the end of this text (see the Index below).
11 lis 2004 · THE THIRD BOOK OF THE ODES OF HORACE. ODE I. ON CONTENTMENT. I abominate the uninitiated vulgar, and keep them at a distance. Preserve a religious silence: I, the priest of the Muses, sing to virgins and boys verses not heard before.
The Horace: Odes and Poetry Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
13 wrz 2024 · THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, CHRIST CHURCH. . INTRODUCTION. Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born on the 8th of December, in the year 65, b. c., at Venusium, a town situated between Apulia and Lucania. Although a freedman, his father possessed competent means, and left him a comfortable patrimony on the banks of the Aufidus.
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 takes pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. These poems are explicitly based on the work of Greek writers (I.1.35, 32.3ff.; III.30.13-14; IV.3.23), Alcaeus above all, but also Sappho and, in the case of the major public odes, Pindar; another source was Greek epigram.
