Epodes
By: Horace ; edited by David Mankin.
Contributors: Mankin, David.
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng; grc; lat
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Latin language -- Readers -- Poetry; Political poetry, Latin; Verse satire, Latin; Rome -- Poetry
Description: The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon and in particular with the seventh-century Greek poet Archilochus. In none of Horace's works is his originality more brilliantly displayed than in this creative appropriation of a hitherto unexploited Greek genre.

David Mankin's introduction and commentary examines all aspects of Horace's relationship with his models and of the technical accomplishment of his verse; it also gives help with linguistic problems. His edition places the Epodes firmly in their literary and historical context: Rome at the time of its greatest crisis, the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate.

. Students and scholars alike will welcome this commentary, only the second in any language since the 1930s and the only one providing a full and detailed interpretation in English.
Notes: Text in Latin, commentary in English, with some Classical Greek in appendices.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-316) and indexes.