A Commentary on Horace's Epodes - Hardcover

Watson, Lindsay C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199253242 ISBN 13: 9780199253241

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This is by far the most detailed commentary yet on Horace's Epodes. The line-by-line commentary on each epode is prefaced by a substantial interpretative essay which offers a reading of that poem and synthesises existing scholarship. These essays, the first of their kind, will provide essential critical orientation to undergraduates approaching the Epode-book for the first time. Moreover, the scale and density of the commentary will make it an invaluable resource for scholars of Latin poetry. A particular feature is the first in-depth treatment of the two lengthy magical Epodes 5 and 17. The author draws extensively on ancient magical texts preserved on papyrus and lead, as well as the recent flood of publications on Greek and Roman magic, to cast light on countless details in these epodes which reveal a marked familiarity on Horace's part with authentic magical belief and practice.

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Lindsay C. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199253242
• ISBN 13: 9780199253241
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624
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