Kosmos Society Book Club | Selections from Horace


This month, CHS Kosmos Society members are reading selections from the poetry of Horace, and more specifically, Odes from Book 4, which comprises 15 poems and from which you can read as many as you wish; and a selection from the Satires. You can choose which to read, but here are some suggestions: Book 1 Satire 4 ‘A Defence of Satire’, Book 1 Satire 10 ‘On Satire’, Book 2 Satire 1 ‘On Satire Again’, Book 2 Satire 6 ‘Town versus Country’. The conversation will start and continue in the Kosmos Society forum (here), and the hangout will take place on Tuesday, November 28 at 11 a.m. EST.

You can read any translation you like. Here are links to some that are available free online:

Odes

Odes, Book 4, translated by John Conington,  Perseus

Odes, Book 4, translated by John Conington, in ‘book’ view, or in various file formats, archive.org

Odes, Book IV, translated by A.S. Kline, Poetry in Translation

A metrical translation by Lord Lytton, archive.org

Latin editions can be found on Perseus

or in Odes and Epodes with notes by Charles E. Bennett, archive.org

Satires

Satires, translated by John Conington, Project Gutenberg

Satires, translated by John Conington, archive.org

Satires, translated by A.S. Kline, Poetry in Translation

Satires, translated by C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley, on Perseus

Happy readings!