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An emblem of the horrors of World War I, British poet Wilfred Owen's (1893–1918) "Dulce et Decorum Est" mocks Horace 's patriotism as "the old Lie," trite and belonging to a long gone age of warfare conducted with more civility. The war would claim Owen's own life.
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Summary. Book 1. The poems in the first three books of Odes...
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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).
Summary. Book 1. The poems in the first three books of Odes are not arranged chronologically. All three are dedicated to Maecenas, Horace 's good friend and benefactor. Books 1 and 2 treat the wide variety of themes for which Horace is known: the impermanence of life, the importance of the arts, and the pleasures of living simply. Ode 1.1.
The six odes which begin book 3, all in the Alcaic metre, and on serious subjects such as the Roman Empire, virtue, and Augustus, have long been recognised as forming an independent group within the collection. Since Plüss (1882) they have generally been known as the "Roman Odes".
A select bibliography is followed by a brief but thought-provoking introduction to the book as a whole, dealing with the following matters: Horace’s early life, the date of Odes 1-3, the ‘Roman Odes’ (first so styled by Plüss 2), Horace and Augustus, Maecenas and other addressees, Horace’s ‘love-poems’, religion in Horace, the ...
Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age, and concludes with the statement of his achievement: he has produced for his Roman readers a ...
Horace's The Odes of Horace Chapter Summary. Find summaries for every chapter, including a The Odes of Horace Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book.
