A Commentary on Horace Odes, Book II [Paperback]

This commentary provides the reader with the background knowledge of conventional forms and topics needed to appreciate fully every aspect of the poems. The editors focus particularly on word play, literary parallels, and stylistic nuances.

The present volume fully lives up to the very high expectations aroused by the first....Its users will find it a constant source of information, criticism, stimulus, and understanding. --Journal of Roman Studies

One cannot praise sufficiently highly the assiduous scholarship that has gone into the making of the commentary. --Bulletin of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers

Nisbet and Hubbard have produced what will become a standard reference edition for many a long year. --Classical Review