Horace

Satires Book II

Horace, Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University, Connecticut)

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Cambridge University Press
25 February 2021

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Latin

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet's anxieties about the limits of satiric free speech in the first poem to the ridiculous excesses of an outrageously overdone dinner party in the last. For students working at intermediate and advanced levels of Latin, this book makes the satires of Horace's second book of Sermones readable by explaining difficult issues of grammar, syntax, word-choice, genre, period, and style. For scholars who already know these poems well, it offers fresh insights into what satire is, and how these poems communicate as uniquely 'Horatian' expressions of the genre.

By: Horace
Edited by: Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University Connecticut)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780521449472
ISBN 10: 0521449472
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 25 February 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Q. HORATI FLACCI SERMONUM LIBER SECUNDUS; Commentary.

Kirk Freudenburg is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor in the Department of Classics at Yale University. His research has long focused on the social life of Roman letters, especially on the unique cultural encodings that structure and inform Roman ideas of poetry, and the practical implementation of those ideas in specific poetic forms, especially satire. His main publications include: The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (1993), Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge, 2001), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge, 2005), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Satires and Epistles (2009), and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (Cambridge, 2017), co-edited with Shadi Bartsch and Cedric Littlewood.