Odes: With the Latin Text
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Odes: With the Latin Text
By (Author) Horace
Translated by James Michie
Introduction by Gregson Davis
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th February 2002
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
874.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 13mm
354g
Description
Translation and Notes by James Michie and
Reviews
Horace has always been one of my favourite poets, and I have often toyed with the idea of translating him.
After reading Michies translation, however, I see that I must dismiss the idea. I do not expect to read a better one. W. H. Auden
Author Bio
James Michie was born in 1927 and studied classics at Trinity College, Oxford. His other translations include The Poems of Catullus and Virgil's Eclogues. His Collected Poems was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University and the author of Polyhymnia- The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.
