Profile of Horace

Forsideomslag
Harvard University Press, 1982 - 142 sider

In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace.

Horace is best known for his four books of Odes, cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Shackleton Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation. A variety of themes are elucidated, from the poet's relations with his patron to Roman sexual attitudes. Close scrutiny is given to about thirty passages which, he argues, have been misread. An appended essay on a notable predecessor, the textual scholar Richard Bentley, is especially revealing on the art of classical scholarship.

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Profile of Horace
David Roy Shackleton Bailey
Uddragsvisning - 1982
Profile of Horace
David Roy Shackleton Bailey
Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1982

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Om forfatteren (1982)

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

TitelProfile of Horace
ForfatterDavid Roy Shackleton Bailey
Udgaveillustreret
UdgiverHarvard University Press, 1982
Oprindeligt fraUniversity of Michigan
Digitaliseret14. apr 2008
ISBN0674713257, 9780674713253
Længde142 sider
  
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