Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 English and Latin Edition | 2nd Edition

Details about Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 English and Latin Edition:

Ronnie Ancona’s pedagogical expertise and scholarly work on Horace have produced a text that is both student- and teacher-friendly as well as informed by the latest in Horatian scholarship. Horace was a talented and innovative literary craftsman whose lyrics reveal an extraordinary facility and playfulness with the Latin language. Ancona’s edition helps students begin to appreciate the nuances of Horace’s poetic art. The revised second edition features an updated bibliography and more visually appealing maps.

This edition features

• Introduction on Horace and his times—including a discussion of some of the features of Horace’s style that make his work both challenging and exciting to read.
  
• Latin text of poems with line-by-line, same-page vocabulary, grammatical notes, and background notes
  
• Odes 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.37, 1.38, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14, 3.1, 3.9, 3.13, 3.30, 4.7, and Satire 1.9
  
• Complete vocabulary
  
• Description of all the meters used in the poems
  
• Figures of speech defined, with examples from the poems
  
• Extensive, updated bibliography, including the latest in scholarship on Horace
  
• Latin text of poems without notes
  
• Four maps