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How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess
- Title
- How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess / Horace ; selected, translated and introduced by Stephen Harrison.
- Author
- Horace
- Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harrison, S. J.
- Description
- x, 238 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a materialistic society, avoid extreme emotions of any kind as psychologically damaging, place a value on friendship of all kinds, do not be afraid of death, and most famously live every day to the full as tomorrow may never come (carpe diem). But above all else, Horace advocated a life of contentment and self-sufficiency"--
- Series Statement
- Ancient wisdom for modern readers
- Uniform Title
- Ancient wisdom for modern readers.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Translations.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Language (note)
- Includes selected text from all of Horace's works in Latin with English translation.
- Contents
- The search for the good life -- The importance of friendship -- Love -- the problem of passion -- Death -- the final frontier.
- Call Number
- JFC 21-143
- ISBN
- 9780691182520
- 0691182523
- LCCN
- 2020015296
- OCLC
- 1142907594
- Author
- Horace, author.
- Title
- How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess / Horace ; selected, translated and introduced by Stephen Harrison.
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ancient wisdom for modern readersAncient wisdom for modern readers.
- Language
- Includes selected text from all of Horace's works in Latin with English translation.
- Added Author
- Harrison, S. J., editor, translator, writer of introduction.Container of (expression): Horace. Works. Selections (Harrison). English.Container of (expression): Horace. Works. Selections (Harrison). Latin.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Horace. How to be content. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 9780691208497 (DLC) 2020015297
- Research Call Number
- JFC 21-143