page_title: Decorum
hierarchical_section_title: Decorum
caption_attribution_description: Horatius reads before Maecenaslabel QS:Len,"Horatius reads before Maecenas" label QS:Lfr,"Horace lit ses poèmes devant Mécène" label QS:Lru,"Федор Бронников. Гораций читает свои сатиры меценату."
context_page_description: Decorum was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.
context_section_description: Decorum (from the Latin: "right, proper") was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.
caption: Poetry reading by Horace, an early advocate of decorum. Painting by Fyodor Bronnikov
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