Item
Two Roman Mice by Horace
- Title
- en_US Two Roman Mice by Horace
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Latin
- en_US Marilynne K. Roach
- Creator
- en_US Horace See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Roach, Marilynne K.
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:19:22Z
- en_US 1998-10
- en_US 1975
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:19:22Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1975
- Abstract
- en_US Rusticus and Urbanus are proper names of the two mice. Urbanus, who wears a toga, is from Rome itself. Black-and-white designs, e.g. of the country's grains and the city's exotic fruits and vegetables, decorate pages; whole pages and double-page spreads are given to illustrations. The story follows Horace generally, but is not the fairly literal translation…somewhat adapted for non-Romans proclaimed in the notes. It thus includes a reference to the shortness of life, but omits the long Epicurean exhortation. It also adds, effectively, elements not in Horace, like cool water from a clear-flowing spring (identified in the notes as Horace's Bandusian Spring). The book opens sideways and is about 7 x 5.5. In the city, they travel through trees and eventually wear wreaths. The mice flee the watchdogs through the garden and up some vines. In the last scene of Rusticus running back home in the country, there is a shrine to a mouse by the wayside. An appendix presents the Latin. Two pages of notes about Horace and one about Marilynne Roach. I am surprised that I never knew of this book until now.
- Identifier
- en_US 069000771X
- en_US 2835 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Thomas Y. Crowell Company
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.R56 Tw 1975 See all items with this value
- en_US Horace See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books