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Horus (/ hɔːrəs /), [ c ] also known as Hor (/ hɔːr /), [ d ][ 5 ] in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), [ 1 ] commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ ˈhɒrɪs /), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).
Horus, in ancient Egyptian religion, a god in the form of a falcon whose right eye was the sun and whose left eye was the moon. At Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), the reigning king was considered a manifestation of Horus, a notion that was accepted as dogma after Upper and Lower Egypt were united by the kings from Nekhen.
18 maj 2017 · Horace said the poems were hymns to the gods and modeled after the great Greek authors, among them Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar. Horace always had a deep respect and admiration of the Greeks and believed Rome had to recognize the Greek superiority in all intellectual and cultural fields.
14 lut 2023 · Horace's Epistles are a series of letters, providing sage advice to various friends. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace (65-8 BCE) wrote 20 letters around 20-19 BCE, collected in Epistles...
29 mar 2023 · Born in the town of Venusia in what is now the Italian province of Basilicata as the son of a freedman, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known to most by the anglicized “Horace,” was arguably the greatest Roman lyric poet of the Augustan era.
16 mar 2016 · Horus is the name of a sky god in ancient Egyptian mythology which designates primarily two deities: Horus the Elder (or Horus the Great), the last born of the first five original gods, and Horus the...
