The Complete Horace Anthology: The Odes, The Epodes, The Satires, The Epistles and The Art of Poetry

"Horace", or "Quintus Horatius Flaccus", was the leading romantic lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Qunitillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." His poetry became "the common currency of civilization", and he still retains a devoted following

His career coincided with Rome's momentous change fr...