Horace: Satires Book II

The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome''s trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet''s anxieties about th...