Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem 1st Edition

I got to this book through Pope's very free renderings of Horace. No Latin (and less Greek). The translations work, and the commentary is excellent (as well as amusing).

According to Mr. West, Horace and a slave are idling away an afternoon. The setting is a friend's villa on the Bay of Naples. It's late winter. They are drinking wine and talking about the future.Bay of Naples? Winter? Slave? How can he possibly know that?Read Mr. West's close reading and analysis to learn more, much more.