Horace

Odes, Satires, Ars Poetica

The poet of the golden mean. His Odes — compact, polished, inexhaustible — set the standard for Latin lyric poetry. The Ars Poetica became the handbook of neoclassical literary criticism for fifteen centuries.

Key works

• Odes~23 BC— Carpe diem and the art of living
• Ars Poetica~19 BC— The rules of poetic craft

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