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Free Download Steven Heine, "Xuedou’s 100 Odes to Old Cases: A Translation with Commentary"
English | ISBN: 0197676995 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 24 MB
Xuedou’s 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan Buddhism, one that has exerted significant influence on the way stories of former teachers (guze) have been appreciated and appropriated for the past thousand years. In this volume, Steven Heine offers a much-needed translation of this pivotal work along with extensive background and commentary. Heine brings important perspective to a 1000-year old text that became the basis for the Blue Cliff Record, which continues to have a profound impact on the overall legacy of East Asian Buddhist intellectual history and religious literature.

Free Download How to Love the Universe : A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
by Stefan Klein, Mike Mitchell
English | 2018 | ISBN: 161519486X | 240 Pages | True ePUB | 2.88 MB

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 Stephen Instone, Anthony Verity, "The Complete Odes (Oxford World’s Classics)"
English | 2008 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 0199553904 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for insights on Greek religion and ethics. Pindar’s startling use of language, including striking metaphors, bold syntax, and enigmatic expressions, makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience.

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’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 How to Love the Universe : A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
by Stefan Klein, Mike Mitchell
English | 2018 | ISBN: 161519486X | 240 Pages | True ePUB | 2.88 MB

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.