Horace

Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare

By: Horace, Richard F. Thomas (Editor)

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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 period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same time provided an impulse towards the nostalgia represented by the poet's private world. Professor Thomas provides an introduction and commentary (the first full commentary in English since the nineteenth century) to each of the poems, exploring their status as separate lyric artefacts and their place in the larger web of the book. The edition is intended primarily for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, but is also important for scholars.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 Classical History & Civilisation History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Poetry

Preface	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Map	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Horace's literary career	p. 1
The date of Odes 4	p. 5
Structural patterns	p. 7
Thematic patterns	p. 9
Poetry and propaganda	p. 10
Reluctant praise	p. 13
Pindar, Callimachus and aesthetic contestations	p. 20
Text and sigla	p. 24
Q Horati Flacci Carmen Saecvlare	p. 27
Q Horati Flacci Carminvm Liber Qvartvs	p. 33
Commentary on Carmen saeculare	p. 53
Commentary on Odes IV	p. 85
The Secular Games	p. 271
Acta of the Augustan Secular Games of 17 BCE (lines 90-168)	p. 274
The Sibylline Oracle for the Secular Games of 17 BCE	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 279
Indexes	p. 289
Latin words	p. 289
General	p. 290
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