Horace: Epodes and Odes

948 Pages·1998·2.96 MB·English

by  Daniel H. Garrison

Epodes and Odes Oklahoma Series in
title:
Classical Culture ; V. 10
author: Horace.; Garrison, Daniel H.
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin: 0806130571
print isbn13: 9780806130576
ebook isbn13: 9780585165479
language: Latin
Laudatory poetry, Latin, Verse satire, Latin,
subject
Rome--Poetry.
publication date: 1991
lcc: PA6393.C2 1991eb
ddc: 874/.01
Laudatory poetry, Latin, Verse satire, Latin,
subject:
Rome--Poetry.
Page i
Horace
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
Page ii
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
Series Editor
Susan Ford Wiltshire, Vanderbilt University
Advisory Board
Alfred S. Bradford, University of Oklahoma
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., University of South Carolina
Susan Guettel Cole, State University of New York, Buffalo
Carolyn J. Dewald, University of Southern California
Thomas M. Faulkner, The College of Wooster
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
Nancy Felson-Rubin, University of Georgia
Arther Ferrill, University of Washington
Helene P. Foley, Barnard College
Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto
Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross
A. Geoffrey Woodhead, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge/
Ohio State University
Page iii
Horace
Epodes and Odes A New Annotated Latin Edition
By Daniel H. Garrison
University of Oklahoma
Press: Norman
Page iv
By Daniel H. Garrison
Mild Frenzy: A Reading of the Hellenistic Love Epigram (Wiesbaden,
1978)
The Language of Virgil (New York, 1984)
The Student's Catullus (Norman, 1989)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horace.
[Carmina]
Odes and Epodes / Horace ; a new annotated Latin edition by Daniel
H. Garrison.
p. cm. (Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 10)
Latin text; commentary in English.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8061-2374-5
I. Garrison, Daniel H. II. Horace. Epodi. 1991. III. Title. IV. Series
PA6393.C2 1991
874'.01dc20 91-3224
CIP
Horace: Epodes and Odes, A New Annotated Latin Edition is Volume
10 of the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Maps 14 courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Excerpt from Alexandria by Edward Morgan Forster, copyright ©
1961 by Edward Morgan Forster. Used by permission of Doubleday, a
division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Copyright © 1991 by Daniel H. Garrison. Published by the University
of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University.
All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
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Page v
Contents
Preface page vii
Introduction ix
The Epodes 3
The Odes, Book 1 27
The Odes, Book 2 70
The Odes, Book 3 94
The Carmen Saeculare 135
The Odes, Book 4 139
Abbreviations 170
Notes to the Epodes 171
Notes to the Odes, Book 1 200
Notes to the Odes, Book 2 258
Notes to the Odes, Book 3 291
Notes to the Carmen Saeculare 339
Notes to the Odes, Book 4 342
Appendix A: People 371
Appendix B: Meters 377
Appendix C: Glossary of Literary Terms 385
Appendix D: The Death of Cleopatra, by E. M. 395
Forster
References 397
Page vi
Maps
1. The Classical World 163
2. Italy 164
3. Greece 165
4. Asia Minor 166
5. Rome and Environs 167
6. Horace's Italy 168
Page vii
Preface
This edition began four years ago as a revision of the 1934 Bennett
and Rolfe commentary, from which generations of scholars (my own
included) first read our Horace. It soon became clear that something
more than a revision was necessary if students of this fine poet were
to have a clear view of his achievement. So many of the basic
assumptions with which we read poetry have changed since the
beginning of the twentieth century (when the school editions still in
use at this writing first appeared), that it has been necessary to write a
new book. What has emerged preserves the scope and some of the
actual language of the 1934 Bennett and Rolfe, but makes different
assumptions about the poet and the business of reading himabout
which more later.
Though in respect to the dis manibus of Bennett and Rolfe I cannot
present this edition as a revision of their work, it still owes much to
their example, as it attempts to anticipate the problems of today's
reader as comprehensively as they did. At the same time, the 1896
commentary of E. C. Wickham, the 1903 C. L. Smith, the 1910
Shorey and Laing, the 1930 Kiessling and Heinze, the 197078 Nisbet
and Hubbard, and the 1980 Quinn have each made important
contributions. Besides these commentaries, I have regularly consulted
Fraenkel, Commager, Williams (on Odes 3), and Putnam (on Odes 4),
and as many articles on individual poems as time permitted. David
Armstrong's Horace and the typescript of Gregson Davis' Polyhymnia
also contributed to my work in its later stages. My own students over
the past twenty-two years have made no small contribution, and my
colleagues Francis Dunn and Diane Rayor suggested dozens of
improvements as the commentary grew. In addition, William S.
Anderson, Gregson Davis, and the anonymous readers of the