{"product_id":"the-odes-of-horace-including-the-latin-text","title":"The Odes of Horace (Including the Latin Text)","description":"xvi, 376 pp. A modern translation by James Michie. Introduction by Rex Warner and including the Latin text. The Odes (Latin: Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace. The Horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Books 1 to 3 were published in 23 BC. According to the journal Quadrant, they were \"unparalleled by any collection of lyric poetry produced before or after in Latin literature\".[1] A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in 13 BC. The Odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of Greek originals – Pindar, Sappho and Alcaeus are some of Horace's models. His genius[POV? – discuss] lay in applying these older forms to the social life of Rome in the age of Augustus. The Odes cover a range of subjects – Love, Friendship, Wine, Religion, Morality, Patriotism; poems of eulogy addressed to Augustus and his relations; and verses written on a miscellany of subjects and incidents, including the uncertainty of life, the cultivation of tranquility and contentment, and the observance of moderation or the \"golden mean.\"[2] The Odes have been considered traditionally by English-speaking scholars as purely literary works. Recent evidence by a Horatian scholar suggests they may have been intended as performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of Greek lyric song.[3] The Roman writer Petronius, writing less than a century after Horace's death, remarked on the curiosa felicitas (studied spontaneity) of the Odes (Satyricon 118). The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson declared that the Odes provided \"jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time \/ Sparkle for ever\" (The Princess, part II, l.355).","brand":"The Orion Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20808219164742,"sku":"2288771","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2288771.jpg?v=1571427017","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-odes-of-horace-including-the-latin-text","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}