How to Be Content (eBook)

An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess

Stephen Harrison, Horace (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20849-7 (ISBN)

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What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life-above all else, a life of contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison, a leading authority on the poet, provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death.Living during the reign of Rome's first emperor, Horace drew on Greek and Roman philosophy, especially Stoicism and Epicureanism, to write poems that reflect on how to live a thoughtful and moderate life amid mindless overconsumption, how to achieve and maintain true love and friendship, and how to face disaster and death with patience and courage. From memorable counsel on the pointlessness of worrying about the future to valuable advice about living in the moment, these poems, by the man who famously advised us to carpe diem, or "e;harvest the day,"e; continue to provide brilliant meditations on perennial human problems.Featuring translations of, and commentary on, complete poems from Horace's Odes, Satires, Epistles, and Epodes, accompanied by the original Latin, How to Be Content is both an ideal introduction to Horace and a compelling book of timeless wisdom.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Allusion • Anecdote • annotated Horace poems • aphorism • Ars Poetica (Horace) • Augustinian • Augustus • biographical context • Biography • burial • Cato the Younger • Catullus • Charites • chatterer • Cleopatra • commentaries • Cymbeline • De rerum natura • Desultor • Deus ex machina • Devotio • Dionysus • Dust and Shadow • epicurean • epicurus • Epigram • Equanimity • Euripides • evocation • Faunus • Fellow traveller • Foreign War • freedman • Generosity • geryon • Glycera (courtesan) • Happiness • Hexameter • historical context • Horace • Horace biography • Horace commentary • Horace in context • Horace poetry selection • horatian • How to be happy • how to live • Humour • Hygiene • hyperbole • Iambus (genre) • Ideas • Imagery • In Death • infatuation • Interpretations • Invective • James Boswell • laughter • Lethe • life advice • Literary criticism • locus amoenus • Longevity • Lucretius • Lycidas • Lympha • Lyric Poetry • Maia (mythology) • mansion • Mark Antony • maureen • meaning of Horace poems • meaning of Horace poetry • Metre (poetry) • monogamy • morte • Mr. • narrative • new Horace translation • novelist • Odes (Horace) • Odysseus • Pacifism • Parody • Pentheus • Persecution • Philosophy • Phrygius • Pirithous • pity • Plotius Tucca • Poetry • postumus • Propertius • Pyrrha • rhetoric • Roman lyric poet • Sappho 31 • Satire • Satires (Horace) • Satires (Juvenal) • Schadenfreude • seize the day • selected Horace poems • simile • stanza • Stoic • Subtext • Suetonius • Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof • Superiority (short story) • Supplication • Teucer • The Bacchae • The Other Hand • Theseus • Thought • Tibullus • Tragedy • tranquillity • Trojan War • Tullus (praenomen) • Tyrtaeus • Verres • Virgil • well-being • Wit
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20849-2 / 0691208492
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20849-7 / 9780691208497