Profile of Horace - Hardcover

Shackleton Bailey, D. R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674713257 ISBN 13: 9780674713253

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1982

Synopsis

In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace.

Horace is best known for his four books of Odes, cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Shackleton Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation. A variety of themes are elucidated, from the poet's relations with his patron to Roman sexual attitudes. Close scrutiny is given to about thirty passages which, he argues, have been misread. An appended essay on a notable predecessor, the textual scholar Richard Bentley, is especially revealing on the art of classical scholarship.

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About the Author

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674713257
• ISBN 13: 9780674713253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152