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Free Download Llewelyn Morgan, Michael Langan (Narrator), "Horace: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B0CVKZR7HV | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:22:00 | 124 MB
Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace’s poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the traditions of ancient literature.
Llewellyn Morgan guides the listener through the dizzying vagaries of Horace’s biography, which reflects the political and social instability of the period. His poetry, and the life he artfully constructs and presents to us in it, engages both with the greatest crisis that Rome had ever faced, and its resolution by the first Emperor. Horace is Rome’s laureate, and through him we experience the anxieties and triumphs of his age. For posterity, Horace has served for a model of the good life, a promoter of enlightened retirement, but has also exemplified poetic artistry, and is the most creative manipulator of the Latin language, even among his remarkable contemporaries.

Free Download The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature) edited by Stephen Harrison
English | March 5, 2007 | ISBN: 0521830028, 0521536847 | True EPUB | 396 pages | 1.9 MB
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus.

Free Download Richard Tarrant, "Horace’s Odes "
English | ISBN: 0195156765 | 2012 | 176 pages | PDF | 9 MB
"Horace’s body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice-usually detached, often ironic, always humane-, reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. In this book Richard Tarrant introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace’s career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace’s best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace’s range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace’s own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time"-

Free Download S. J. Harrison, "Horace"
English | 2014 | pages: 120 | ISBN: 1107444446 | PDF | 2,2 mb
This book sets out to give a full and authoritative survey of the scholarly literature on the Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC), a central figure in Latin literature and Western culture, concentrating on the period since 1957. It begins with a brief survey of key resources, focusing especially on material available online, and then looks at the overall shape of Horace’s poetic career. The main chapters cover Horace’s works chronologically, dividing them into early, central and late periods and thus echoing the trajectory of his poetic career. The final two chapters look at the poet’s style and its variations across different genres, and at the extensive reception of Horace’s work in Western European literature. This is followed by a full bibliography.

Free Download The Odes of Horace By Kaimowitz, Jeffrey H(Translation)
2008 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0801889952 | PDF | 1 MB
This groundbreaking new translation of Horace’s most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz adapts the Roman poet’s rich and metrically varied poetry to English formal verse, reproducing the works in a way that maintains fidelity to the tone, timbre, and style of the originals while conforming to the rules of English prosody. Each poem is true to the sense and aesthetic pleasure of the Latin and carries with it the dignity, concision, and movement characteristic of Horace’s writing.Kaimowitz presents each translation with annotations, providing the context necessary for understanding and enjoying Horace’s work. He also comments on textual instability and explains how he constructed his verse renditions to mirror Horatian Latin.Horace andThe Odesare introduced in lively fashion by noted classicist Ronnie Ancona.

Free Download Horace: Satires Book I By Emily Gowers (editor)
2012 | 379 Pages | ISBN: 052145851X | PDF | 6 MB
Horace’s first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man’s self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet’s own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping readers interpret their most cryptic aspects and appreciate their technical finesse. The introduction puts Horace in context as late-Republican newcomer and a vital figure in the development of satire and discusses the structure and meaning of Satires I, literary and philosophical influences, style, metre, transmission and Horace’s rich afterlife. Each poem is followed by an essay offering overall interpretation. This work is designed for upper-level students and scholars of classics but contains much of interest to specialists in later European literature.

Free Download Horace’s Odes By Richard Tarrant
2005 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0195156757 | PDF | 2 MB
"Horace’s body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice-usually detached, often ironic, always humane-, reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. In this book Richard Tarrant introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace’s career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace’s best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace’s range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace’s own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time"–

Free Download John Godwin, "Horace Odes: A Selection"
English | ISBN: 1501324225 | 2018 | 114 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Horace’s Odes, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Odes 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English, placing the poems in their Roman literary context.

Free Download Horace’s Odes: And the Mystery of Do-re-mi By Horace; Stuart Lyons
2007 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0856687901 | PDF | 3 MB
Lyons’s acclaimed verse translation of the Odes is here fully revised and included with revealing new material on Horace and the nature of his work. The book describes the life and times of Horace.