How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess / Horace ; Selected, translated, and introduced by Stephen Harrison

By:

Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C

Contributor(s):

Harrison, Stephen J, 1960- [traductor]

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Series: Ancient wisdom for modern readers | Ancient wisdom for modern readersPublication details: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020.Description: x, 238 pages ; 18 cmISBN:

9780691182520
0691182523

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PA 6411 H811h 2020

Contents:

The search for the good life The importance of friendship Love the problem of passion Death the final frontier

Summary: The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a materialistic society, avoid extreme emotions of any kind as psychologically damaging, place a value on friendship of all kinds, do not be afraid of death, and most famously live every day to the full as tomorrow may never come (carpe diem). But above all else, Horace advocated a life of contentment and self-sufficiency

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PA 6411 H811h 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000163548

Includes index

The search for the good life
The importance of friendship
Love
the problem of passion
Death
the final frontier

The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a materialistic society, avoid extreme emotions of any kind as psychologically damaging, place a value on friendship of all kinds, do not be afraid of death, and most famously live every day to the full as tomorrow may never come (carpe diem). But above all else, Horace advocated a life of contentment and self-sufficiency

Includes selected text from all of Horace's works in Latin with English translation

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