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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. Born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy, he rose to become o

The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Now, for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Irelan

Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text

In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired

The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the

Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgi