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4 paź 2024 · Horace (born December 65 bc, Venusia, Italy—died Nov. 27, 8 bc, Rome) was an outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The most frequent themes of his Odes and verse Epistles are love, friendship, philosophy, and the art of poetry.
The Spring of Bandusium (Latin: fons Bandusiae) is a natural water source in rural Italy, to which the Roman poet Horace addressed a well-known ode (Odes 3.13). The location is thought to be the site of poet's beloved Sabine farm in what is now the commune of Licenza.
6 wrz 2019 · The Latin poet Horace had a very important role within early-modern culture. He was seen as a repository of philosophy (mainly ethics, morals, and poetics), a guide to virtuous behavior, as well as a literary authority in terms of style.
18 maj 2017 · Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE), better known to most modern readers as Horace, was one of Rome's best-loved poets and, along with his fellow poet Virgil, a member of Emperor Augustus' inner circle...
10 lip 2012 · Horace's Ideal Italy: Sabines and Sabellians in Odes 1-3. Keith R. Fairbank, Brigham Young University - Provo Follow. Abstract. Within Odes 1-3 Horace consistently locates an idealized version of Rome in Sabinum and Italia. The former had long been a moral foil for Rome.
14 gru 2009 · Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE) was one of the foremost poets of what is traditionally known as the Golden Age of Latin literature, which roughly spanned the late Republican and the Augustan eras (c. 90 BCE –14 CE).
4 paź 2024 · For example, in one of his satires Horace wrote what looks at first like a realistic account of a journey made to Brundisium (Brindisi, on Italy’s “heel”) in 37 bc. Two of the incidents, however, prove to have been lifted—and cleverly adapted—from a journey by the earlier Latin satirist Lucilius.
