Satires and Epistles - Paperback
by Horace, John Davie, Robert Cowan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Horace, John Davie, Robert CowanSeries:Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)Publish date:2011-03-22Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199563289ISBN-10:199563284UPC:9780199563289Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, MedievalSize:7.72 x 5.09 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCC2QTBFRN
Satires and Epistles
Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems influenced not only contemporaries such as Juvenal, but also...
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199563289ISBN-10:199563284UPC:9780199563289Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, MedievalSize:7.72 x 5.09 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCC2QTBFRN
John Davie is former Head of Classics at St. Paul's School, in London. Robert Cowan is Fairfax Tutorial Fellow in Latin Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
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