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Paperback. Series: Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) has never really been out of fashion. Petrarch, for example, modelled his letters on Horace's innovative Epistles, while also borrowing from his Roman forebear in composing his own Italian sonnets. The echo of Horace's voice can be found in almost every genre of medieval literature. And in later periods, this influence and popularity if anything increased. Yet, as Paul Allen ... Read more
Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) has never really been out of fashion. Petrarch, for example, modelled his letters on Horace's innovative Epistles, while also borrowing from his Roman forebear in composing his own Italian sonnets. The echo of Horace's voice can be found in almost every genre of medieval literature. And in later periods, this influence and popularity if anything increased. Yet, as Paul Allen ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784533304
SKU
V9781784533304
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About Paul Allen Miller
Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA. He has published eight books, fourteen edited volumes, and more than seventy articles on Latin Poetry, Greek philosophy, theory, French and English literature. His most recent book is Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato (2015).
Reviews for Horace
The well-known Latinist Paul Allen Miller here presents a lively and stimulating introduction to Horace, one of the great short-form poets in world literature, in all his richness and complexity.
Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK
Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK