Books in the Horace Odes series

Horace is the greatest Latin lyric poet, and certainly the most influential. This book provides a new translation of the famous first book of Odes which is both accurate and readable, supported by a basic commentary for students showing how the poems work. The book includes the Oxford Classical Text edition of the Latin text.

The three books of Horace's "Odes" were published in 23 BC and gained him his reputation as the greatest Latin lyric poet. This title provides the Latin text of the third book together with a translatiwhich attempts to be close to the Latin while catching the flavour of the original. There is also a commentary explaining the poems.