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Download or read book Horace and the Dialectic of Freedom written by Walter Ralph Johnson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson (classics and comparative studies, U. of Chicago) offers a new interpretation of Horace's Epistles and the light they shed on the Roman poet of the first century B.C. The letters, he says, illuminate Horace's search for freedom, his attitude toward nature and culture, and his relationship with his father and with the city of Rome. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR