Homage to Horace
A Bimillenary Celebration
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:8th Jun '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary international classical scholarship. The seventeen brand new pieces have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the poet's death, and range from detailed treatments of particular poems to general issues about Horace's literary techniques, themes, biography, and reception in later times. An introduction sets the book in the context of contemporary scholarship on the poet.
some of the contributions in Homage to Horace extract interesting thoughts * Ancient 47 *
Nisbet's greatness as a Latinist rests on the commentaries he and Margaret Hubbard have written together on the first two books of the Odes, and through the medium he has become synonymous with modern Horatian studies: Harrison's collection Homage to Horace is also Homage to Nisbet, and Nisbet's influnce is evident through the volume. * TLS *
this collection of essays contains a useful, brief biographical sketch of the contributors, a fairly extensive bibliography, and ndex Nominum, Rerum, et Verborum and an Index Locorum. * New England Classical Journal XXIII.4 *
Some of the papers in Harrison add to our knowledge of externals without pretending to be about the poetry as such. * The Classical Journal, Feb-March 1997 *
It is a fitting tribute. The book surveys a broad range of Horatian topics ... Harrison has done well to bring together such a diverse collection, and the book will be a valued addition to any library. * Timothy S. Johnson, Baylor University, Religious Studies Review, Volume 23, Number 1/January 1997 *
these are ... impressively competent papers ... for the several stimulating observations it offers and for the valuable material gathered in it, readers will be grateful. * D.M. Hooley, University of Missouri, The Classical Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 '97 *
ISBN: 9780198149545
Dimensions: 224mm x 143mm x 27mm
Weight: 639g
390 pages