Horace
Subtitle: Image, Identity, and Audience
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801866661
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin; Ancient Rome; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; Roman Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Epistolary poetry, Latin; Criticism and interpretation; Horace; Laudatory poetry, Latin; Verse satire, Latin
First sentence: Although many ancient authors have suffered through long periods of disfavor and neglect, their literary stars rising and falling according to the vagaries of changing tastes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus has remained consistently popular through the centuries.