Fifteen rounds with Horace, with Aidan Everett

About this event

Join us for a lively evening discussing the Roman poet Horace: his life, times and language

Horace’s Odes, with their wide-ranging themes encompassing love, friendship and the uncertainty of human life, are one of those timeless works of art that are always contemporary. Aidan Everett presents us with lively translations from the Latin interspersed with his own new poems, full of verve and wit, in which the Roman poet’s interlocutors talk back.

The book includes Latin text and detailed notes.

The evening will cover:

• His life
• His character
• His philosophical views
• The people he knew and wrote odes to
• The historical context
• Aidan Everett’s approach to writing the book and why he wanted to do it
• Why read Horace?

These renderings of the Odes skilfully negotiate between Horace’s age and our own, and Everett’s fictional ‘answering voices’ strike the same balanced note. An impressive achievement.
     Jem Poster,    Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University

There will be refreshments though sadly no posca or conditum