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How to Be Content

How to Be Content

How to Be Content Hardback - 2020

by Horace

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  • Title How to Be Content
  • Author Horace
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Publication date 2020-10-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780691182520_inp
  • ISBN 9780691182520 / 0691182523
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 4.7 x 1.1 in (17.53 x 11.94 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Horace, Horace - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020015296
  • Dewey Decimal Code 874.01
  • Quantity available 3

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From the publisher

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 "harvest the day," 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.

About the author

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is also a fellow of Corpus Christi College. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Horace. He lives in Oxford.

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