Satires and Epistles [Audiobook] download free by Horace
- Listen audiobook: Satires and Epistles
- Author: Horace
- Release date: 2011/2/15
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199563289
- Rating: 7.26 of 10
- Votes: 371
- Review by: Jared Floyd
- Review rating: 7.7 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/19
- Duration: 2H57M15S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, AC3, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression TZO, LZ, RAR, TAR.Z, ZIP, TAR.LZO)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M40S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?'Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given bythe nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and Horace's pervasive humanity. They influenced not only Persius and Juvenal but the long tradition of English satire, from Ben Jonson to W. H. Auden. These new prose translations by John Davie perfectly capturethe ribald style of the original.In the Epistles, Horace uses the form of letters to his friends, acquaintances, foremen, and even the emperor to explore questions of philosophy and how to live a good life; and in 'The Art of Poetry' (the Ars poetica), he gives advice on poetic style that informed the work of writers and dramatists for centuries. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Anthologies (non-poetry), Diaries, Letters & Journals, Poetry By Individual Poets
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.24 USD
- Dimensions: 143x195x31mm
- Weight: 182g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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