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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786859203321

Autore

Levi Peter

Titolo

Horace : a life / / Peter Levi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Tauris Park Paperbacks, , 2012

©1997

ISBN

0-85773-289-7

0-85772-153-4

Edizione

[New paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Poets, Latin

Rome Intellectual life

Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the emperor, while his legendary poems (Satires, Odes, Epistles) about friendship, philosophy, love and sex still have considerable appeal. This biography attempts to present a complete picture of Horace's life and world. It considers the details of Horace's romantic liaisons and why he never married, what the status of his father - a freedman - meant to the poet, and his distinctive brand of philosophy. In this acclaimed biography, Peter Lev