Horace`s "Carmen Saeculare"
Ritual Magic and the Poet`s Art
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10318553M
- ISBN-139780300083330
- ISBN-100300083335
- OCLC Control Number43859501
- Library of Congress Control Number00038154
and 2 more
- Goodreads1741
- LibraryThing1865570
Classifications
- LCCPA6393.C63P88 2001
- DDC874/.01
- LCCPA6393.C63 P88 2001
Description
"This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric by Horace that we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a public ritual."--BOOK JACKET.
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