The POETRY OF HORACE (SUMMARY & ANALYSIS)

The Odyssey of Love: Visit my educational site: Support Wisdom: My Book on Plato: Instagram: (@paul_jkrause) Twitter: (@paul_jkrause) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this episode of Literary Tales we dig into the so-called “praise poetry“ of Horace and deconstruct the claim that Horace was a propagadnist for Augustus. On the contrary, Horace’s traditionalism and praise of Augustus is tied to a greater concern in Horace: the romanticism of the agrarian idyll which was, in fact, the republican idyll before the Civil Wars.... We end by discussing the possibility that Horace was the forerunner to “romanticism.“ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Back to Top