Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA. He has published eight books, fourteen edited volumes, and more than seventy articles on Latin Poetry, Greek philosophy, theory, French and English literature. His most recent book is Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato (2015).

Students of poetry who are looking to find out more about Horace as an artist will find much to appreciate here … Miller surpasses this reader's expectations of what a book in this genre purports to do. The coherent interpretive thread of irony is a pleasant surprise.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Why Horace, Why Now Chapter 1: Roman Socrates: Irony in the Satires Chapter 2: Going Soft on Canidia: The Epodes, an Unappreciated Classic Chapter 3: Exegi monumentum: Horace's Two-Eared OdesChapter 4: Freedom, Friendship, and the Ties that Bind: Socratic Irony in Epistles I EpilogueWorks CitedIndex

Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA. He has published eight books, fourteen edited volumes, and more than seventy articles on Latin Poetry, Greek philosophy, theory, French and English literature. His most recent book is Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato (2015).

Students of poetry who are looking to find out more about Horace as an artist will find much to appreciate here … Miller surpasses this reader's expectations of what a book in this genre purports to do. The coherent interpretive thread of irony is a pleasant surprise.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Why Horace, Why Now Chapter 1: Roman Socrates: Irony in the Satires Chapter 2: Going Soft on Canidia: The Epodes, an Unappreciated Classic Chapter 3: Exegi monumentum: Horace's Two-Eared OdesChapter 4: Freedom, Friendship, and the Ties that Bind: Socratic Irony in Epistles I EpilogueWorks CitedIndex