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The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time. Horace was one of the great poets of Rome's Augustan age, benefiting from the friendship of the powerful statesman and cultural patron Maecenas. These Odes, which take as their formal models Greek poems of the seventh century BCE are the observations of a wry, subtle mind on events and occasions of everyday life.
David R. Slavitt is the author of more than one hundred books including novels, poetry, reportage, and translations of Horace, Petrarch, Boethius, Sophocles, Lucretius, Dante, and others. He is coeditor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama series and the Penn Complete Greek Drama series. His own most recent verse collection is Civil Wars. Horace (65-8 BCE) was a Roman lyric poet of the age of Caesar Augustus. His surviving other works include the Satires, Epodes, Epistles, and Ars Poetica.
