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Satires

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Satires
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Horace
Translated by John Svarlien
Introduction by David Mankin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781603848442
ClassificationsDewey:871.01
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Publication Date 15 September 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

The Satires of Horace offer a hodgepodge of genres and styles: philosophy and bawdry; fantastic tales and novelistic vignettes; portraits of the poet, his contemporaries, and his predecessors; jibes, dialogue, travelogue, rants, and recipes; and poetic effects in a variety of modes. For all their apparent lightheartedness, however, the poems both illuminate and bear the marks of a momentous event in world history, one in which Horace himself played an active role-the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Principate.

Author Biography

John Svarlien is Professor of Classics, Transylvania University. David Mankin is Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University.

Reviews

This work will be a welcome addition to course reading lists, as it does justice to Horace's misleadingly simple verse. Svarlien's rhythmic lines go down lightly and easilyas he renders Horace's phrase, he 'writes like people talk,' yet it is a talk that jars and provokes. Mankin's concise and highly readable notes will be as useful to scholars as to new readers of Horace: they are packed with cultural background, stylistic commentary, useful cross-references, and appealing suggestions on interpretation." Catherine Keane, Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis Svarlien's handling of blank verse is supple, vigorous, and melodic. He is able to devise a style of verse that is appropriately conversational and varied. Hard to imagine there will soon be a better translation of the Satires . Mankin's introduction is lucid and extremely informative, and his execution of the end-notes is brilliant. --W. R. Johnson, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, University of Chicago Clear, lively, readable, with fast-paced iambics creating a fluent blank verse. Useful apparatus too. --Rachel Hadas, Department of English, Rutgers University