A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Sermones, Book I

A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Sermones, Book I
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 491
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781527567412
ISBN-13 : 1527567419
Rating : 4/5 (419 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Sermones, Book I by : Andy Law

Download or read book A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Sermones, Book I written by Andy Law and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace’s book of Sermones (also called Satires) was his first published work. Rather than a collection of satirical sideswipes, as the genre might have dictated, the book is a wiry, tight, muscular, interlaced hexameter artwork of enormous originality and as far removed from the legacy of satirical writing he inherited as one can imagine. It is the work of a 29-year-old grappling with issues of personal and poetic identity during one of the most important and pivotal times in European history. Geographically, socially and genetically an outsider, Horace earned himself a seat at Rome’s top creative table, close to the heart of the political engine that was to change Rome forever. His book details a transformational journey from ‘nobody’ to ‘somebody’, and is a simultaneous invention of poet and reinvention of poetic genre. Horace’s Sermones have floated in and out of fashion ever since they first appeared, regularly eclipsed by his Odes. Today, rehabilitated, they find space in the higher levels of the school curriculum. This book provides unique insights and will be of interest to all classicists, as well as students studying core influences on European literature.


A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Sermones, Book I Related Books