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Born in December 8, 65 BC / Died in November 8, 8 BC / Italy / Italian

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

MAJOR WORKS—EXTANT

  • Iambi (Epodes, 30 b.c.).
  • Sermones (Satires: Satires I, 35/34 B.C.; Satires II, 30 B.C.).
  • Carmina (Odes: Odes I-III, 23 B.C.; Odes IV, 13 B.C.).
  • Epistulae (Epistles: Epistles I, 20-19 B.C.; Epistles II: 2.1, ca. 14 B.C.; Epistles II: 2.2, ca. 19 B.C.).
  • Ars poetica (date uncertain, 23-18 B.C. or 13-8 B.C.).

Editio princeps

  • Quinti Horati Flacci Opera, ca. 1470.

Standard editions

  • Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera, edited by Richard Bentley, third edition (Berlin: Weidmann, 1869).
  • Q. Horati Flacci Opera, edited by E. C. Wickham, second edition edited by H. W. Garrod (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912).
  • Q. Horati Flacci Opera, edited by Friedrich Klingner, third edition (Leipzig: Teubner, 1959).
  • Horatius: Opera, edited by Istvan Borzsák (Leipzig: Teubner, 1984).
  • Horatius, Opera, edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, third edition (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1995).

Translations in English

  • Horace: The Odes and Epodes, translated by Charles E. Bennett, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914).
  • Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926).
  • The Odes and Epodes of Horace, translated by Joseph P. Clancy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
  • Ad Pyrrham: A Polyglot Collection of Translations of Horace's Ode to Pyrrha (Book 1, Ode 5), compiled by Ronald Storrs (London: Oxford University Press, 1959).
  • Horace: Odes, translated by James Michie (New York: Orion Press, 1963).
  • The Satires of Horace and Persius, translated by Niall Rudd (New York: Penguin, 1979).
  • The Complete Works of Horace, translated by Charles E. Passage (New York: Ungar, 1983).
  • The Essential Horace, edited by Burton Raffel (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983).
  • The Complete Odes and Epodes with the Centennial Hymn / Horace, translated by W. G. Shepherd (New York: Penguin, 1983).
  • Horace, Epistles, translated by Colin W. Macleod (Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986).
  • Horace's Odes and Epodes, translated by David Mulroy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).
  • Horace in English, edited by D. S. Carne-Ross and Kenneth Haynes (New York: Penguin, 1996).
  • The Odes of Horace, translated by David K. Ferry (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997).
  • Horace: Odes and Carmen Saeculae, translated by Guy Lee (Leeds, U.K.: Francis Cairns, 1998).

Commentaries

  • The Works of Horace: 2 Volumes, edited by E. C. Wickham, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1877-1891).
  • Q. Horatius Flaccus, edited by Adolf Kiessling and Richard Heinze, part 1: Odes & Epodes, fourteenth edition (Berlin: Weidmann, 1984); part 2: Satires, eleventh edition (Berlin: Weidmann, 1977); part 3: Epistles, eleventh edition (Berlin: Weidmann, 1984; first edition, edited by Kiessling, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884-1889).

Commentaries—Odes and Epodes

  • Horace. Odes and Epodes, edited by T. E. Page (London: Macmillan, 1895; reprinted, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969).
  • Horace, Odes and Epodes, edited by Charles E. Bennett (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1901; reprinted, New York: Caratzas, 1984).
  • Horace: The Odes, edited by Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing (Boston: Sanborn, 1910; reprinted, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982).
  • The Third Book of Horace's Odes, edited by Gordon W. Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).
  • A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book I, edited by R. G. M. Nisbet and Margaret Hubbard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
  • A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book II, edited by Nisbet and Hubbard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Horace: The Odes, edited by Kenneth Quinn (Newburyport, U.K.: Focus/R. Pullins, 1996).
  • Horace, Epodes and Odes, edited by Daniel H. Garrison (Norman & London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).
  • Epodes, edited by David Mankin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  • Horace, Odes I. Carpe Diem. Text, Translation and Commentary, edited and translated by David West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Commentaries—Satires and Epistles

  • Oeuvres d'Horace: Satires, edited by F. Plessis and P. Lejay (Paris: Hachette, 1911; Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1966).
  • Horace Satires and Epistles, edited by Edward P. Morris (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980).
  • Horace: Epistles Book I, edited by O. A. W. Dilke, third edition (London: Methuen, 1989).
  • Horace on Poetry, edited by C. O. Brink, 3 volumes, second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982-1985).
  • Epistles, Book II and Epistle to the Pisones ('Ars Poetica'), edited by Niall Rudd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  • Horace, Satires I, edited by M. P. Brown (Warminster, U.K.: Aris & Phillips, 1993).
  • Horace, Satires II, edited by Frances Muecke (Warminster, U.K.: Aris & Phillips, 1993).
  • Horace Epistles Book I, edited by Roland Mayer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).