Horace`s "Carmen Saeculare"
Michael C. J. Putnam · 2000
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"This is the first book devoted to Horace's Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric by Horace that we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem's power and significance as a public ritual."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780300083330
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