The Cambridge Companion to Horace
作者： Stephen Harrison 著
出版社：Cambridge University Press 2007-2-1
简介：Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans awide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literaryepistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wineas he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became akey literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present astimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, his work, itsthemes and its reception. This provides the orientation andcoverage needed by non-specialists and students, but also suggestsprovoking perspectives from which specialists may benefit. Sincethe last general book on Horace was published half a century ago,there has been a sea-change in perceptions of his work and in theliterary analysis of classical literature in general, and thisterritory is fully charted in this Companion.
