Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare
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The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521587662
ISBN13:9780521587662
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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