Satires

Horace

Original title: Satirae

earliest edition we have, 1959 Harvard University Press, 1991 508 pages

Universal-Bibliothek — book 431

The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in recent decades the Satire...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

This book in English

O. Michael Brown 1 printing we hold · 1993 · Aris & Phillips
Smith Palmer Bovie 1 printing we hold · 2002 · University Of Chicago Press

Which translation should you read?

Editions we hold

The satires of Horace edition · 2008 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 147 pages · 9780812240900
The satires of Horace edition · 2002 · Ausable Press · 100 pages
Satires and Epistles (Phoenix Books) edition · 2002 · University Of Chicago Press · 326 pages · 9780226067773
Satires paperback · 2001 · Belles Lettres · 245 pages · 9782251799643
Satires paperback · 1993 · Aris & Phillips · 256 pages · 9780856685323
Satires paperback · 1993 · Aris & Phillips · 194 pages · 9780856685309
Satires edition · 1991 · Harvard University Press · 508 pages
Orazio, ovvero, La saggezza di vivere edition · 1987 · All'insegna del pesce d'oro · 59 pages
Satires and epistles edition · 1979 · Penguin · 301 pages
Horace talks edition · 1971 · Books for Libraries Press · 180 pages
Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica edition · 1970 · Heinemann · 508 pages
Satires edition · 1968 · University of Oklahoma Press · 239 pages

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.