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I Resources for the study of Horace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2014

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The internet now provides many prime resources for the study of Horace which make life considerably easier for the student and scholar of the poet, such as reliable and searchable online Latin texts, bibliographies, and prose and verse translations of all kinds, as well as access to a wide range of modern and classic Horatian scholarship via digital versions of older works, Google Books, and journal databases such as JSTOR and Project MUSE (for subscribing institutions), not to mention increasing numbers of monographs available via subscription to publishers' own websites. These resources are growing continually and repay regular monitoring. But most Horatian scholarship is still to be found in printed form: here I give a brief survey of the most useful books for effective orientation in the modern study of Horace.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 2014 

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References

1 E.g. the PHI database, <http://latin.packhum.org>; see also <http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/>.

2 For example, that by Niklas Holzberg (see section 2 below), currently (March 2014) available at <http://www.niklasholzberg.com/Homepage/Bibliographien.html>, and that by Wilfried Stroh, currently at <http://stroh.userweb.mwn.de/bibl/horaz.html>, or McNeill 2009 on Oxford Bibliographies Online at <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/>.

3 E.g. various historical versions on the Perseus Digital Library, <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper>, or the modern version by A. S. Kline on his useful Poetry in Translation site, <http://www.poetryintranslation.com>.

5 E.g. Oxford Scholarship Online, <http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/>, where many recent Oxford University Press books and some from other university presses can be found; also <http://www.cambridge.org/online/>, for Cambridge University Press.

6 See Brink 1971: 12–27.

7 See Tarrant 1983.

8 See Tränkle 1993.

9 See Nisbet 1986; Delz 1988. For a survey of editions up to Shackleton Bailey, see Tränkle 1993.

10 I paraphrase a lecture by him at Cambridge, 10 January 2013.

11 Commentaries are dealt with in more detail in the chapters dedicated to individual works below; these paragraphs are intended to give some rapid orientation.

12 Though some credit should be given to Dilke 1954, the commentary on Epistles 1 for generations of students.

13 For a detailed account see Harrison 2002.