Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BCE) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the Treasury, and began to write poetry. Maecenas, lover of literature, to whom Virgil and Varius introduced Horace in 39, became his friend and made him largely independent by giving him a farm. After 30 Horace knew and aided with his pen the emperor Augustus, who after Virgil's death in 19 engaged him to celebrate imperial affairs in poetry. Horace refused to ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Date Published: 1929-01-01
ISBN-13:9780674992146ISBN:0674992148
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Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Heinemann, London
Date Published: 1929
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth Covered Hardback
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd Harvard University Press, London Cambridge Massachusetts
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good +++ in Very Good jacket. 16mo. One of the Loeb Classical Library, in Greek with English translation. A 6 3/4" by 4 1/2" hardback with bright, clean, red cloth covers with very slightly dulled gilt titles to the spine & a bright gilt monogram on the front cover. No owner's inscriptions and a very crisp clean interior. The dustwrapper has a lightened spine with a little wear at the spine ends and turnover corners. There are a few small dusty marks. read more
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Publisher: Harvard University Press, USA
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