Horace (Routledge Revivals)

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes , Epistles ¸ Satires and Ars Poetica . The essays, written by internationally-known scholars, include a discussion of the three worlds of the Satires , and a study of Horace’s poetic craft in the Odes – his greatest technical