Horace

Horace was a Roman lyric poet who lived through the civil wars and the establishment of Augustus’s rule. A former supporter of Brutus, he later wrote poetry about friendship, politics, rural retreat, artistic craft and the uneasy benefits of restored order.

Horace’s Complete Works of Horace (Satires, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, Epistles, Ars Poetica) places Horace within a narrative shaped by art, learning and intellectual life, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and empire, conquest and resistance.