Horace: Epistles Book II and Ars Poetica

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Horace: Epistles Book II and Ars PoeticaCambridge Greek and Latin Classics This commentary fulfils the need for a student edition of Horace's literary epistles, which have recently been the subject of renewed scholarly interest. Professor Rudd provides a clear introduction to each of the three poems: the Epistles to Augustus, to Florus, and to the Pisones (the so called 'Ars Poetica'). He sketches the historical context in which the poems were written, and comments on their structure and

ακαταμάχητοι και ευάλωτοι

the poet Sappho and Telesilla

Liberation brings her back to Greece to build her life from scratch with passion and stubbornness

supplies a Greek text based on that of Rudolf Kassel

for it is pitched at just the right level for school students tackling their first continuous prose

The book is approached as a dynamic sequence of poems rather than a collection

Το Σαββατοκύριακο ωστόσο θα αποβεί ολέθριο

intended for upper school level

"Rooms are a strange thing

though the balance of opinion is that he was probably guilty

and it was there that he died

and deals with major literary and historical questions