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22 lip 2024 · The Satires contain some of that offensive material (e.g. Sat. 1.2), but Chapter 2 offers a suggestive overview of Horace’s two satirical books with a strong sense of its interplay with Lucilius and the common themes and tropes that flavor this genre.
23 lis 2023 · Llewelyn Morgan. Very Short Introductions. A comprehensive yet accessible and concise introduction to the complex topic of Horace's poetry, designed to be read and understood by a wide readership.
Throughout his work, the Roman poet Horace displays many, sometimes conflicting, faces: these include dutiful son, expert lover, gentleman farmer, man about town, outsider, poet laureate, sharp satirist and measured moraliser.
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).
18 maj 2017 · Published around 21 BCE, the first book was a series of letters written to a variety of individuals, telling of the circumstances of his own life and offering counsel. In the second book, Ars Poetica, Horace wrote on the art of writing poetry.
23 lis 2023 · This book provides an introduction to the poetry of Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus), a Roman poet active in the second half of the 1st century bce. It sketches the eventful period in which he lived and wrote, when a destructive civil war was giving way to peace established by the first emperor, Augustus, and describes the poetic works he composed ...
29 kwi 2017 · Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BCE–8 BCE ), more commonly known as Horace, was a Roman poet, best known for his satires and his lyric odes. His letters in verse, particularly his Ars Poetica: Epistle to the Pisos, outline his beliefs about the art and craft of poetry.
