Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
By (Author) Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
20th January 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
Ancient history
871.01
Physical Properties
Hardback
352
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manual For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's ba
Reviews
"What the book does do well is to document an intelligent readers journey through this most elusive of poems. In the process it offers us a new way of thinking about it, one in which its apparent center moves to the margins and its apparent defects become strengths. It offers a richer and more interesting Ars than most of us are used to, but one recognizably by the Horace we know from other works."---Gregory Hays, New York Review of Books
Author Bio
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill is associate professor of classics and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Miami and the author of Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition.
