{"product_id":"unity-and-design-in-horaces-odes","title":"Unity and Design in Horace's Odes","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eUnity and Design in Horace's Odes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMatthew S Santirocco\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0807816914\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe University of North Carolina Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1986\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eHorace's first three books of \u003ci\u003eOdes\u003c\/i\u003e, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new critical approach to them in English in more than two decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and using several contemporary critical methodologies, Santirocco reveals the \u003ci\u003eOdes\u003c\/i\u003e both as individual poems and as components in a larger poetic design. His reading of Horace demonstrates that the ensemble is itself an important context for understanding and appreciating the poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconstructing the history of the ancient poetry book, both Greek and Roman, Santirocco challenges certain common assumptions about its origin and development. He argues that true parallels for the \u003ci\u003eOdes\u003c\/i\u003e are not to be found in the other Augustan books, which are relatively homogeneous in content and form, but in the heterogeneous collections of Hellenistic writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdes I-III\u003c\/i\u003e comprise eighty-eight poems in twelve different meters, and in tone and topic they vary widely. Avoiding the two extremes of past scholarship, which either has searched for a single underlying unity or else has denied any meaningful design, Santirocco uncovers a variety of both static and dynamic structures and shows their relevance to the literary interpretation of the poems at all levels. Ultimately, the composition of a poem and the disposition of the group are shown to be analogous activities. \u003ci\u003eOdes I-III\u003c\/i\u003e do not constitute a medley of discrete poems but, instead, approximate the unity of a single ode. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Unity and Design in Horace's Odes | Matthew S Santirocco | Hardcover | 0807816914 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1606006","offer_id":48742032933016,"sku":"1606006","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81fcXM_0hML.jpg?v=1773846569","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/unity-and-design-in-horaces-odes","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}