Unity and Design in Horace's Odes

af Matthew S. Santirocco

Horace's first three books of Odes, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Drawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and using several contemporary critical methodologies, Matthew Santirocco reveals the Odes both as individual poems and as components in a larger poetic design.