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Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere. While the Odes are subtle and allusive, the Epodes are robust and coarse in their celebrations of sex and tirades against political leaders. This edition also includes the Secular Hymn and Suetonius's "Life of Horace."
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This new translation fully exhibits Horace's philosophy of life and his superb mastery of the Latin lyric form.
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Greg Riepl
reviewed The Complete Odes and Epodes on September 03, 2020 The Complete Odes and Epodes
Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounds of snow:
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below...
- Horace, Ode I, 9: Dryden translation.
Old age is No Fun!
So seems to say the aging Roman master Horace in this excerpt. And I couldn't agree more!
As well as being a time of myriad aches and pains and illnesses, it is a time when efforts at calm reflection are upset by "undisciplined squadrons of emotion" (Eliot)
For it is a time when your "Heart rises to the surface" (Elizabeth Hay).
Yikes! Is there a CURE for these Oldtimer's Blues?
Yes! says Horace: just AC-CENT-U-ATE the Positive... for there ARE good times to be had in the Wintertime of Life!
Listen to the happy turn the wintry Ode 9 takes next:
With well-heaped logs dissolve the cold
And feed the genial hearth with fires,
Produce the wine that makes us bold,
And sprightly wit and love inspires.
And throughout these mature poems, Horace stresses the Golden Mean - neither getting out of hand with levity or getting wrapped up in your sorrows.
This is good advice indeed for me and all my friends "of a certain age."
Old age is not for sissies - and neither is it a time to "measure our life in coffee spoons."
Don't dwell on what you've lost -
Be Happy for what you HAVE -
Right HERE & NOW.
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