14.02.2024
Dr Isaac Waisberg of Tel Aviv University has added a collection of translations of Odes 1.5, Ad Pyrrham, to his website. It includes those collected by Sir Ronald Storrs and published posthumously in 1955. The introduction to the Storrs collection is based on his 1953 Address to the Horatian Society.
Dr Waisberg’s introductory note, with a link to his collection, can be found here: https://iwpbooks.me/2024/01/26/ad-pyrrham-at-65/
07.01.2024
A delightful article on Horace by Llewelyn Morgan in The Critic magazine.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2024/the-humanity-of-horace/
07.01.2024
Members will be sorry to hear of the death on 15th November 2023 of Colin Sydenham, who was Secretary of the Horatian Society from 1980 – 2001 and Chairman from 2002 – 2011.
06.11.2023
Dr Isaac Waisberg of Tel Aviv University has added a collection of translations of Odes 2.10, Rectius Vives, to his website: https://iwpbooks.me/collections-of-translations/
Dr Waisberg is currently working on collections of translations of Odes 2.14, Eheu Fugaces, and Odes 1.23, Vitas Hinnuleo.
27.06.2023
The Horatian Society congratulates A.E. Stallings, one of our two speakers at the 2021 Dinner, on her appointment as the next Oxford Professor of Poetry.
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/next-oxford-professor-of-poetry-announced-as-a-e-stallings#:~:text=A%20E%20Stallings%20studied%20Classics%20at,finalist%20for%20the%20Pulitzer%20Prize.
21.09.2022
New member of the Horatians, Sir Rupert Jackson, has recently brought out The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy, published by Bloomsbury Academic. Horace’s views on Roman Britain (ultimos, Odes 1.35 29-30) can be found on p.33.
All royalties go to Classics for All.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-occupation-of-britain-and-its-legacy-9781350149373/
21.09.2022
Your Secretary missed this when it was published
“This week I had the privilege of attending two exceedingly convivial dinners held by august literary societies in salubrious, metropolitan surroundings. The first, on Tuesday evening, was the annual dinner of the Horatian Society, held in Lincoln’s Inn hall. Founded in 1933 by lawyers, its members gather to “promote fellowship and render tribute to Horace.” Not a member myself, I was kindly invited by a friend who is.”
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/horace-rattigan-and-me-lindsay-johns.
25.02.2022
Horatian Society member Stuart Lyons CBE, author of Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi, has recently published an article in Early Music History on Horace the songwriter. Singing Horace in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages is open access and can be found here: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0261127921000085
22.12.2021
Members will be familiar with Sir Ronald Storrs’ publication of translations of Odes 1.5, Ad Pyrrham, which is dedicated to the Society. In similar style, Dr Isaac Waisberg of Tel Aviv University has compiled a collection of 165 English translations of Odes 4.7, Diffugere Nives, “the most beautiful poem in ancient literature” (A. E. Housman). The collection includes a number of translations by members of the Society. With the exception of that by John Hazel from the 2021 Addresses, the translations are pre-1960.
https://iwpbooks.me/collections-of-translations/
Dr Waisberg is exploring the possibility of publishing the collection, and would welcome any comments or suggestions at waisberg@pm.me.
Update 03.02.22: Dr Waisberg’s website now also includes collections of translations of Odes 2.16 Otium Divos and 3.9 Donec Gratus Eram. He is adding PDFs of books of hard to find translations.
01.11.2021
A blue plaque has been unveiled to Helena Normanton KC, the first female law student at the Inns of Court, one of the first women to be called to the bar and a founder member of the Horatian Society.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/blue-plaque-for-trailblazing-woman-barrister/5110256.article
05.05.2021
Members will be sorry to hear of the death of David Raeburn, our speaker at the 2019 Dinner. Obituaries from the Guardian and Telegraph can be found below.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/18/david-raeburn-obituary
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/05/03/david-raeburn-classics-teacher-translator-directed-greek-plays/
20.01.2021
The Society is delighted to announce the publication by Colin Sydenham, our former Secretary and Chairman, of his Latin Verse Challenges. The book is a compilation of original poems (almost all in English) with their translations by Colin into diverse Latin metres. It challenges the reader to identify the original poems and appreciate the art of adapting the original to the Latin forms.
You can savour a taste of its delights in Classics for All’s latest edition of Bellaria: https://classicsforall.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/CfA%20Bellaria%2039.pdf
A review by Isabel Raphael can be found on The Oldie website:
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-joy-of-latin-verse-isabel-raphael
The book can be ordered from Amazon, Waterstones, Hive or through your local book shop.
ISBN-10: 1839750227
ISBN-13: 978-1839750229