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Product Description: 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...read more
By Robert Cowan (introduced by)
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9780199563289 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 22, 2011, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere...read more
By David West (trans)
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9780199555277 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Horace (65-8 B.
9780192832467 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 26, 1997, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Horace (65-8 B.

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Product Description: This groundbreaking new translation of Horace’s most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz adapts the Roman poet's rich and metrically varied poetry to English formal verse, reproducing the works in a way that maintains fidelity to the tone, timbre, and style of the originals while conforming to the rules of English prosody...read more
By Ronnie Ancona (introduced by)
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9780801889950 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 16, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking new translation of Horace’s most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations.

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9780801889967 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 15, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking new translation of Horace’s most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations.

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Product Description: Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift for evoking a wealth of imagery with a few economical phrases...read more
By William Barr (editor)
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9780199540662 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor.

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Product Description: The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex...read more
By Susanna Braund (introduced by)
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9780812240900 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 5, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.

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9780812222098 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 30, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.

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Product Description: Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries—even the ruling emperor, Nero...read more
By Horace, Persius and Niall Rudd (trans)
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9780140455083 | Rep tra edition (Penguin Classics, December 27, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W.

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A new expert translation of the classic odes of Horace puts these unforgettable works into a contemporary idiom, bringing them to life for today's readers while capturing the beauty and wit of the poems. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9780374525729 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A new expert translation of the classic odes of Horace puts these unforgettable works into a contemporary idiom, bringing them to life for today's readers while capturing the beauty and wit of the poems.

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Product Description: The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and vigorous translation facing the Latin text. Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing maybe 60 years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by Lucilius and Horace, a tradition mined in Susanna Braund's introduction and notes...read more
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9780674996120 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 25, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and vigorous translation facing the Latin text.

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Product Description: The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text...read more
By Niall Rudd (editor)
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9780674996090 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought.

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Product Description: Poetry.Translation. A fresh new translation of the Satires of Horace by the poet William Matthews. Stanley Plumly writes, "What is special about Matthews's Horatian Satires is the immediacy of the idiom, the sense of discovery of the actual moment, the quickness of the turn of the line...read more
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9781931337007 | Ausable Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9781931337014 | Ausable Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “What is special about Matthews’ Horatian Satires is the immediacy of the idiom, the sense of discovery of the actual moment, the quickness of the turn of the line.

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Product Description: Catherine Keane Reed, Reed College Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...this volume was an excellent idea...It is attractive and not too expensive, and will provide students with an appropriate introduction to the colorful genre of satire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William J. Dominik (editor) and William Thomas Wehrle (editor)
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9780865164420 | Bolchazy Carducci Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Catherine Keane Reed, Reed College Bryn Mawr Classical Review .

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Product Description: This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
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9780192839459 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 1999), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
9780192817624 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome.

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9780820110998 | Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, May 1, 1999, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of italian character two thousand years later...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691004273 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age.

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Product Description: Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In "The Sixteen Satires", he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers...read more
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9780140447040 | 3 edition (Penguin Classics, February 1, 1999), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c.

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The poet-translator whose acclaimed version of Gilgamesh was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award presents an elegant, accurate translation of the complete odes of the immortal Latin poet of the Roman Empire. (view table of contents)
By David Ferry (trans) and Horace
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9780374224257 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides a new translation of the Odes of Horace who, along with his friend Virgil, was the most celebrated and influential poet of the reign of Emperor Augustus

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Product Description: Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process displays the core of ideas and practices with which aristocratic culture at Rome enshrined itself - the display of geneologies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the cult of exemplary legends - in all seriousness...read more
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9780859895170 | Univ of Exeter Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA.

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Product Description: Featuring the work of Horace, this is part of the "Poets in Translation" series which offers the verse translations of major European poets through the ages.
By D. S. Carne-Ross (editor), Kenneth Haynes (editor) and Horace
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9780140423877 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Featuring the work of Horace, this is part of the "Poets in Translation" series which offers the verse translations of major European poets through the ages.

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Product Description: An elegant and readable translation of Horace's best-known poems.
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9780472105311 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: An elegant and readable translation of Horace's best-known poems.

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Product Description: The famous trilogy which describes the murder of Agamemnon by his wife and his son's subsequent vengeance.
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9780460871716 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The famous trilogy which describes the murder of Agamemnon by his wife and his son's subsequent vengeance.

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Product Description: Juvenal, whose work dates from the early second century A.D., is commonly considered to be the greatest Roman satirical poet. Addressing Roman society, his sixteen satires are notable for their bitter, ironic humor; power of invective, grim epigrams; sympathy with the poor; and narrow pessimism...read more
By William Barr (contributor) and Niall Rudd (trans)
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9780198147565 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 9, 1991, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Juvenal, whose work dates from the early second century A.

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9780905205373 | Francis Cairns, October 1, 1987, cover price $40.00

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9780905205656 | Francis Cairns, July 1, 1987, cover price $19.00

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9780856353246 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $18.00

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A new translation of poems by the Latin writer focuses on the disintegration of a civilization and the gradual disappearance of freedom
By Burton Raffel (editor)
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9780865471115 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A new translation of poems by the Latin writer focuses on the disintegration of a civilization and the gradual disappearance of freedom

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