Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Zwei Bücher Satiren

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The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in recent decades the Satires have been rendered into prose or bland verse. Horace continues to influence modern lyric poetry, and our greatest poets continue to translate and marvel at his command of formal style, his economy of expression, his variety, and his mature humanism. Horace's comic genius has also had a profound influence on the Western literary tradition through such authors as Swift, Pope, and Boileau, but interest in the Satires has dwindled due to the difficulty of capturing Horace's wit and formality with the techniques of contemporary free verse. -- Publisher description.

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• Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Zwei Bücher Satiren: aus dreissig unverglichenen und allen bisher verglichenen HandschriftenB.G. Teubner1854-01-01
• Zwei Bücher SatirenTeubner1854-01-01
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• The satires and epistles of HoraceGinn1888-01-01
• The Satires and epistlesGinn & Co.1902-01-01
• Die Sermonen des Q. Horatius FlaccusWeidmannsche1907-01-01