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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt, Book I: INTRODUCTION -- The Odes and their Literary Form -- The Chronological Setting of Odes I-III -- The Metres of the Odes -- The Ancient Commentators -- Abbreviations, etc. -- COMMENTARY - INDEXES. - Aus dem Vorwort: "The Odes of Horace, in spite of all their popularity, are unusually liable to misinterpretation. The standard commentaries, though they often explain the meaning of the words, tend to be less illuminating on the wider issues. The obvious exception is Heinze's revision of Kiessling, but even that is short in scale, as well as being now forty years old. The modern interest in literary history finds expression, for the most part, in articles and general studies. It becomes all the more necessary, and all the more difficult, to write new commentaries. We are greatly indebted to our predecessors; here it will be enough to single out Lambinus, Bentley, Mitscherlich, Peerlkamp, Orelli-Hirschfelder, Keller and Holder, Lucian Muller, Kiessling-Heinze. We tried to read as much periodical literature as we could, but like others before us were defeated by its bulk. Many recent articles on Horace are strangely implausible; these are usually left unrefuted. Others, though deserving or innocuous, could find no mention in a book already overloaded. Sometimes, it may be assumed, a theory is ignored because we never heard of it. To our regret we could take no account of work that appeared after July 1968. Horace has suffered from undiscriminating praise even more than other ancient writers. This seems the wrong attitude towards so astringent a poet, and we have occasionally suggested that some odes may be better than others. Our irreverence will be regarded by some as Philistinism; we can only say that if we had not regarded Horace as a great poet we could not have borne to write about him. But though we have waged war on the Panglosses of classical studies, we do not expect to please the literary critics either. We do not rule out the possibility of serious literary criticism on a Latin poet, but we had neither the confidence nor the time to take on the job ourselves. �" ISBN 9780198149149