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Horace: Satires Book II

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Edited with Introduction and Notes by , Yale University, Connecticut
Published 2021

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The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet's anxieties about the limits of satiric free speech in the first poem to the ridiculous excesses of an…

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Key features

  • This edition contains some of the most difficult but also the most widely read and taught Latin poems
  • Explains the difficulties of Horace's Latin for intermediate and advanced students
  • The introduction and commentary provide explore the numerous possibilities for interpreting the poems

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