How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess /

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"The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horace (Autor)
Otros Autores: Harrison, S. J. (Traductor, author of introduction.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Ancient wisdom for modern readers.
Temas:
Horace > Translations into English.
Horace > Criticism and interpretation.
Horace
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Augustinian.
Augustus.
Epicurean.
Horace biography.
Horace commentary.
Horace in context.
Horace poetry selection.
Horace.
Horatian.
Roman lyric poet.
Stoic.
annotated Horace poems.
biographical context.
commentaries.
happiness.
historical context.
how to be happy.
how to live.
ideas.
interpretations.
life advice.
literary criticism.
meaning of Horace poems.
meaning of Horace poetry.
new Horace translation.
philosophy.
seize the day.
selected Horace poems.
thought.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The search for the good life
  • The importance of friendship
  • Love: the problem of passion
  • Death: the final frontier.

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