This fully annotated Latin edition, by Daniel H. Garrison, of Horace's EPODES, ODES, & CARMEN SAECULARE is the first comprehensive English commentary on these works since 1903. The full text of the EPODES is included & placed before the ODES, as it was originally written & published. Garrison offers help with meter, vocabulary, & difficult points of grammar. For advanced students, he places Horace against the background of archaic & Hellenistic Greek poetry, demonstrates the poet's debt to Catullus, & illuminates Horace's relation to his contemporaries, particularly Virgil. Biographical information & a discussion of Horace's lietrary persona expand our view of the poet & his works. Appendices on meter, persons mentioned in the poems, & technical terminolgy provide what readers need to understand topical & mythological references, rhetorical conventions, & poetic artistry. "[T]here is abundant assistance with grammatical explication & poetic diciton.

[as well as] useful maps of Horace's Italy & the Mediterranean basin.The best feature of the comentary is the author's often-demonstrated ability to capture the essence of a Horatian phrase in a pithy formulation." - JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES. "The appendices on literary terms & metrics will become favorites of all teachers who find it difficult to simplify the patterns of Horace for their students.Garrison's text would be especially suitable for Advanced Placement students & very appropriate for the college class." - CLASSICAL OUTLOOK. Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University.

He is the author of MILD FRENZY: A READING OF THE HELLENISTIC LOVE EPIGRAM, THE LANGUAGE OF VIRGIL, THE STUDENT'S CATULLUS, 2d ed. (University of Oklahoma Press), & GREEK SEXUAL CULTURE (forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press).