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  • Horace s Odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood of ancient... Horace s Odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood of ancient writings. In this new paperback edition the authors discuss each ode against its Greek and Roman background to ensure a clearer understanding of its classical and... more
  • Horace s Odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood of ancient... Horace s Odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood of ancient writings. In this new paperback edition the authors discuss each ode against its Greek and Roman background to ensure a clearer understanding of its classical and... more
  • This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals... This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism and how he wrote within a literary tradition... more
  • CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition... CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more
  • The three books of Horace s Odes were published in 23 BC and gained him his re... The three books of Horace s Odes were published in 23 BC and gained him his reputation as the greatest Latin lyric poet. This book provides the Latin text (from the Oxford Classical Text series) of the third book together with a new translation by... more
  • The Latin text of Books I and II of Horace s Odes is included along with notes... The Latin text of Books I and II of Horace s Odes is included along with notes for each word. The notes give complete grammatical syntactical mythological geographical historical and vocabulary information. A literal translation of each ode is... more
  • Though Horace is a great poet much loved and imitated in the past he is very l... Though Horace is a great poet much loved and imitated in the past he is very little read today. This is partly because he has never been translated into readable English that is also faithful to the Latin original. David West here provides such a... more
  • This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals... This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism and how he wrote within a literary tradition... more
  • Horace s Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature.... Horace s Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book and presents Horace s poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The... more
  • Aristotle s Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle... Aristotle s Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle himself this meant the discovery of a general theory of valid deductive argument a project that he had described as either impossible or impracticable probably not very... more
  • 9780521671019. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. ... 9780521671019. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Printed music items Unspecified. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics . Includes: unspecified printed music items. Intended for... more
  • In the first book of odes Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a no... In the first book of odes Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to... more
  • The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was return... 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... more
  • This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an interna... This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general. more
  • Originally published in 1895 this book contains the Latin text of the first bo... Originally published in 1895 this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Horace s famous Odes. Gow includes a biography of the poet and commentaries on each of the 38 poems in the book including a brief synopsis of each ode as well as a... more
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