description: THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Horace (b. 65 B.C.) claims the lyric poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus as models for his celebrated odes. His four books cover a wide range of moods and topics: friendship is the dominant theme of about a third of the poems; a great many deal with love and amorous situations, often amusingly; others deal with patriotic and political themes. The seventeen epodes, which Horace called iambi, were also inspired by a Greek model: the seventh century iambic poetry of Archilochus. As in the odes, love and politics are frequent themes; some of the epodes also display mockery and ridicule, of a harsher variety than we find in Horace's satires.
language: English
title: Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library)
titlecomplete: Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Latin Edition)
genres: Fiction, Classics, Ancient, Philosophy, Classical Studies, Ancient History, Roman, Mythology, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 2935
publisher: Harvard University Press