Lindsay C. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia

• INTRODUCTION ; Historical Background ; Literary Background ; The Epode-book ; Style ; Poetic quality ; Numeros ... secutus ; Conspectus of metres ; Text ; COMMENTARY ON EPODES 1-17

... this is truly a painstaking work of great scholarship and will be the authoritative commentary on the Epodes for the foreseeable future ... it will be a treasure house for readers of a very wide range of classical authors whose work impinges, however tangentially, on the Epodes ... Oxford University Press should be congratulated on the beautiful appearance of this work with generous margins and clear text.

Lindsay C. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia

• INTRODUCTION ; Historical Background ; Literary Background ; The Epode-book ; Style ; Poetic quality ; Numeros ... secutus ; Conspectus of metres ; Text ; COMMENTARY ON EPODES 1-17

... this is truly a painstaking work of great scholarship and will be the authoritative commentary on the Epodes for the foreseeable future ... it will be a treasure house for readers of a very wide range of classical authors whose work impinges, however tangentially, on the Epodes ... Oxford University Press should be congratulated on the beautiful appearance of this work with generous margins and clear text.

Lindsay C. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia

• INTRODUCTION ; Historical Background ; Literary Background ; The Epode-book ; Style ; Poetic quality ; Numeros ... secutus ; Conspectus of metres ; Text ; COMMENTARY ON EPODES 1-17

... this is truly a painstaking work of great scholarship and will be the authoritative commentary on the Epodes for the foreseeable future ... it will be a treasure house for readers of a very wide range of classical authors whose work impinges, however tangentially, on the Epodes ... Oxford University Press should be congratulated on the beautiful appearance of this work with generous margins and clear text.