Horace: Odes Book III

A.J. Woodman is an Emeritus Professor at both Durham University and the University of Virginia and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published almost thirty books on a wide range of texts and topics in Latin literature, including editions of Tacitus within the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics and an edited volume, with Denis Feeney, Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002).

• Preface; Abbreviations and references; Introduction: Politics and poetry; Book 3; Vocabulary; Models and metres; 'Artiste de sons'; Scholarship; The text; Q. HORATI FLACCI CARMINVM LIBER III; Commentary; Select bibliography; Indexes: General; Latin words.

'W. brings the ancient text to new life on every page and provokes insight into (and admiration for) this 'exceptional and much loved author' even when the reader may disagree with the commentator. This book proves (if proof were needed) that a lifetime reading Horace is indeed a lifetime very well spent.' John Godwin, Classics for All