The Complete Odes

The Complete Odes
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9780192805539
ISBN-13 : 0192805533
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Odes by : Pindar

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Verity's lucid translations are complemented by insights into competition, myth, and meaning. - ;'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Pindar's startling use of language - striking metaphors, bold syntax, enigmatic expressions - makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience. Anthony Verity's lucid translations are complemented by an introduction and notes that provide insight into competition, myth, and meaning. -

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781400884117
ISBN-13 : 140088411X
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace by : Horace

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture. Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts, religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.

The Complete Odes and Epodes

The Complete Odes and Epodes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 019283942X
ISBN-13 : 9780192839428
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes by : Horace

A collection of lyric poetry by the Roman poet Horace.

The Complete Odes and Epodes

The Complete Odes and Epodes
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780141960715
ISBN-13 : 014196071X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes by : Horace

Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and exquisitely crafted insights into the brief joys of the present and the uncertain nature of the future, his Odes and Epodes explore such diverse themes as the virtues of pastoral life, the joys of wine, friendship and love, and the poet's personal anguish following Brutus' defeat at the battle of Phillipi. Ranging from subtle and tender hymns to the gods to bawdy celebrations of human passions, they remain among the most influential of all poems, inspiring poets from the Roman era to the European Renaissance, the Enlightenment and beyond.

The Complete Odes and Epodes

The Complete Odes and Epodes
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Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9780199555277
ISBN-13 : 0199555273
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Odes and Epodes by : Horace

This is a superb new translation of the great Augustan poet Horace's Odes and Epodes - brilliantly crafted and diverse poems of politics, friendship, love, and wine. The edition is supplemented by a lucid introduction, extensive notes, and glossary of names.

The Odes of Horace

The Odes of Horace
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781466894938
ISBN-13 : 1466894938
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Odes of Horace by : Horace

David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own. The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poems with their unswerving clarity of vision and their extraordinary range of tone and emotion have deeply affected the poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Herbert, Dryden, Marvell, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Frost, Larkin, Auden, and many others, in English and in other languages. This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Odes. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing."

Odes

Odes
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101017408749
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Odes by : Horace

Book of Odes (Shi-King)

Book of Odes (Shi-King)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044011695418
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Book of Odes (Shi-King) by : Launcelot Cranmer-Byng

Cranmer-Byng's translation of the classic anthology of Confucius.

Odes

Odes
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HNJWW7
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Odes by : Horace

The Odes

The Odes
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780520300002
ISBN-13 : 0520300009
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Odes by : Pindar

One of the most celebrated poets of the classical world, Pindar wrote odes for athletes that provide a unique perspective on the social and political life of ancient Greece. Commissioned in honor of successful contestants at the Olympic games and other Panhellenic contests, these odes were performed in the victors’ hometowns and conferred enduring recognition on their achievements. Andrew M. Miller’s superb new translation captures the beauty of Pindar’s forty-five surviving victory odes, preserving the rhythm, elegance, and imagery for which they have been admired since antiquity while adhering closely to the meaning of the original Greek. This edition provides a comprehensive introduction and interpretive notes to guide readers through the intricacies of the poems and the worldview that they embody.