Horace

What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE), has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life—above all else, a life of contentment in...

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text. Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a...

The Odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This edition of the Odes was first published in the outstanding ‘red Macmillan’ series, in which it finally replaced the late nineteenth-century edition of T.E. Page. Quinn’s edition is designed to meet the need for a modern approach to students in upper school and university. He...

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE) was born at Venusia, the son of a freedman clerk who ensured he received a good education in Rome and Athens. Horace initially supported the ill-fated assassins of Caesar, which resulted in the loss of his property. He then became a secretary in the Treasury and began writing poetry. Maecenas, a lover of literature...

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of...