Classical
Horace
65 BC – 8 BC
Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)
- Ancient Rome
- Classical Antiquity
- Literary Theory
About
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
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