Horace, Odes, 1.37. Presentation and translation
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.11.2.143-152Keywords:
Horace, Odes, lyric poetry, Actium battle, translationAbstract
This paper proposes a new versified translation of the ode 1.37, by the Roman poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC). It is preceded by a brief contextualization of the historical event evocated by the poem, the Actium battle – fought on September 2, 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the city of Actium, in the Roman province of Macedonia –, a few notes, based on updated bibliography on the topic, on the discursive strategies chosen by the poet to represent, or to omit, the characters involved in the battle, and, finally, some considerations, as succinct as possible, on the translation of alcaic stanza.
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