Search Results
Search results 1-2 of 2.
-
Horace's first collection of Odes was published around 4 years into the reign of Augustus. The political climate may inform our reading of No. 34, translated here by Christopher Smart (1722-1771): ODE XXXIV. AGAINST THE EPICURIANS. A remiss and irregular worshiper of the gods, while I professed the errors of a senseless philosophy, I am now obliged to set sail back again, and to renew the course that I had deserted. For Jupiter, who usually cleaves the clouds with his gleaming lightning, lately …
-
My mind is running on two tracks right now, and this observation might serve a point in the Divinity megathread. I'll post it here since I've already started. I've suspected that this Ode might contain allusions to Lucretius, and a footnote in the Loeb edition seems to confirm it. Notice the following passage; (Quote) Compare to Lucretius in Book VI (Leonard); (Quote) Horace must certainly notice that by seizing on one counter-example he is misrepresenting the broad Epicurean case against divine…
