How Long to Read The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace

How Long Does it Take to Read The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 7 minutes to read The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace by Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace The Works of Horace Translated literally into English prose by C. Smart, A.M. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." The Odes (Latin: Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace. The Horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Books 1 to 3 were published in 23 BC. According to the journal Quadrant, they were "unparalleled by any collection of lyric poetry produced before or after in Latin literature." A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in 13 BC. Epode, in verse, is the third part of an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement. At a certain point in time the choirs, which had previously chanted to right of the altar or stage, and then to left of it, combined and sang in unison, or permitted the coryphaeus to sing for them all, while standing in the centre. With the appearance of Stesichorus and the evolution of choral lyric, a learned and artificial kind of poetry began to be cultivated in Greece, and a new form, the epode-song, came into existence. It consisted of a verse of iambic trimeter, followed by a verse of iambic dimeter, and it is reported that, although the epode was carried to its highest perfection by Stesichorus, an earlier poet, Archilochus, was really the inventor of this form.

How long is The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace?

The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace by Quintus Horatius Flaccus is 66 pages long, and a total of 16,896 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 21% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 32 minutes to read The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace aloud.

What Reading Level is The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace?

The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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