Harry Eyres
Autor(a) de Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
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Conhecimento Comum
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Membros
- 148
- Popularidade
- #140,180
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 27
- Línguas
- 6
I found this book in the remaindered book section of my local bookstore several years ago but hadn't gotten around to reading it now; I think that, in many ways, this was the perfect time for me to read it. Like Eyres, I learned Latin growing up (though I didn't go to anywhere near the kind of stuffy grammar school that he did), and I have extremely fond memories of reading a few of Horace's Odes. I also have started, with my current abundance of time due to world events, learning Greek--a language I've wanted to pick up for years to round out the great Classical languages--so I've also been thinking a lot about the Classical world recently. And I made it to Rome a few months ago, so the more travelogue-esque portions of the book (Eyres travels to various places in Italy associated with Horace) also resonated with me in that way.
In all honesty, I'm not sure that I'd recommend this book generally just because it's so extremely niche, but I really enjoyed it a lot. It sometimes leans a little snobbish, but I think that overall the positives outweighed the snobbery.… (mais)