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Horace (Hardcover)
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Horace (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Classics
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Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as
Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the
Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus
Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) has never really been out of fashion.
Petrarch, for example, modelled his letters on Horace's innovative
Epistles, while also borrowing from his Roman forebear in composing
his own Italian sonnets. The echo of Horace's voice can be found in
almost every genre of medieval literature. And in later periods,
this influence and popularity if anything increased. Yet, as Paul
Allen Miller shows, while Horace may justifiably be called the poet
for all seasons he is also in the end an enigma. His elusive,
ironic contrariness is perhaps the true secret of his success. A
cultured man of letters, he fought on the losing side of the Battle
of Philippi (42 BC). A staunch Republican, he ended up eagerly
(some said too eagerly) promoting the cause of Julio-Claudian
imperialism. Viewed as the acme of Roman literary civilization, he
was shaped by his Athens education at Plato's famous Academy. This
new introduction reveals Horace in all his paradoxical genius and
complexity.
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