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Among the greatest names in Romanand Europeanpoetry has always been that of Horace. Through all the centuries since his death in 8 B.C., his superb poetic craftsmanship has remained unassailable. Yet the full range and depth of his humanity continue to prove curiously elusive, especially for the nonspecialist reader to whom above all this book is directed. In the days when Latin was generally read, Horace was too often seen as the poet of establishments, whether the establishment involved was the imperial Roman court, the aristocracy of Augustan England, or the nineteenth-century educational system, and something of that reputation has lingered on even into our own day. To see him thus is the entire aim of David Armstrongs new study. From it emerges not just the illustrious master (famous, calm, and dead) in the arts of lyric and satiric poetry, but the freedmans son who struggled through the terrible upheavals of the collapsing Roman Republic to become, by sheer force of genius, a member of the brilliant circle surrounding the Emperor Augustus. To the very end of that adventurous career on the fringes of power, Horace retained an extraordinary candor, independence, and common sens

Author

David G. Armstrong

Publisher

Yale University Press, New Haven & London

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300045796

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities