Horace

Horace fought on the losing side at Philippi before becoming associated with Maecenas and the Augustan literary circle. His works include Satires, Epodes, Odes and Epistles, combining politics, friendship, ethics, literary craft and the pleasures of moderation.

For the site, Horace belongs in Classical for pages on Augustan Rome, lyric poetry, patronage, civil war memory and elite literary culture. His poetry shows how private reflection and public ideology coexisted under the new regime.