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Horace: Odes Book IIICambridge Greek and Latin Classics Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age, and concludes with the statement of his achievement: he has produced for his Roman readers a body of lyric poetry to rival the great lyric poets of Greece, a monument

a young antiquarian scholar

Written at a time of brutal political and social change

The Introduction gives an outline of the background knowledge needed by a beginner in Virgilian studies

what is knowledge

Tacitus (Cornelius)

to the amusing story of Polyphemus' unrequited love for Galatea and its bloody conclusion

linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text

who defends the conspirators and is accused of being one of them

believing that all this is the nonsense of an old woman

and first book in the breathtaking Blades of Bronze series

created his own complex tradition

In the Crito