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 | #419487 in Books |  Horace Davie John Cowan Robert |  2011-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.00 x.80 x7.70l,.39 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Light thoughts on leaden feet|By Owl|Satires and Epistles were intended by Horace to dance, but now and then, have a sting in their tail.

This translation, compared to several others I've bought from , has several advantages over them, The translation is a fuller, almost literal, presentation of the Latin. In comparison, the verse translations are more compact.|About the Author||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.|

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 English satirists from Ben Jonson to W. H. Auden. In the Epistl...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Satires and Epistles (Oxford World's Classics)   |  Horace, John Davie, Robert Cowan. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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