Horace: Odes book IV and Carmen Saeculare (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

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--publisher's Description, Back Cover. Introduction. Horace's Literary Career ; The Date Of Odes 4 ; Structural Patterns ; Thematic Patterns ; Poetry And Propaganda ; Reluctant Praise ; Pindar, Callimachus And Aesthetic Contestations -- Text And Sigla -- Q. Horati Flacci Carmen Saeculare -- Q. Horati Flacci Carminum Liber Quartus -- Commentary On Carmen Saeculare -- Commentary On Odes Iv -- Appendix 1: The Secular Games -- Appendix 2: Acta Of The Augustan Secular Games Of 17 B.c.e. (lines 90-168) -- Appendix 3: The Sibylline Oracle For The Secular Games Of 17 B.c.e. Horace ; Edited By Richard F. Thomas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-287) And Indexes. Text Of The Odes And The Carmen In Latin; Introduction And Commentary In English; Appendix 3 And Occasional Phrases In Ancient Greek. An edition with introduction and commentary of Horace's Carmen Saeculare and fourth book of Odes. Horace's return to lyric combines poems focusing alternately on the political and the personal, revealing a dynamic tension between the two. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as being important for scholars.