Update June 23: Google Books has limited previews of The Cambridge Companion to Horace and The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire.
Next we are going back to Roman satires, it's Quintus Horatius Flaccus this this time.
In print: The Satires by Horace. There are plenty more editions.
An excellent companion book is The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge Companions to Literature), summarized in this BMCR review:
In sum, this volume proves to be a worthy companion. Each author hands the traveler on to the next author, never isolating the reader but always providing connections by which to find a way back and to make the current scenery familiar. Egressum magna me accepit Freudenburg Roma hospitio magno ...
Online, you can read him at THE SATIRES, EPISTLES AND ARS POETICA (A.S. Kline, Poetry in Translation). See also my earlier post for download options and this page.
For background reading, I found
- Horace at Ancient/Classical History at About.com
with Conington translations - Horace at poets.org
- Suetonius: The Life of Horace
And Wikimedia Commons has images: Casa di Orazio Flacco in Venosa.
