Horace: Satires Book I

Horace''s first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man''s self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet''s own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping r...