Carpe Diem Horace Odes I Author:Horace, David West * There is no similar student commentary on this book of the Odes Horace is a great poet, much loved and imitated in the past, and in recent years much better understood as a result of the learned commentaries of Nisbet and Hubbard (1970, 1978) and Syndikus (1972, 1973). Yet today he is little read. This is partly because he had never been tr... more »anslated into readable English which is also close to the Latin. David West provides such a translation, and supports it by a basic commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know any Latin, to understand how the poetry works. It should also stimulate and provoke students of Latin and of Roman history by propounding interpretations which are not always in line with current orthodoxies.« less