Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This author wrote about the ridiculousness of a feathery creature with a horse's body and man's head in a letter to the Pisones. Thanks to his patron Maecenas, this poet lived on a "Sabine Farm" that he wrote of frequently. On poem by this man urges diligence against the Parthians and notes that it is sweet and (*) right to die for one's country. This poet praised Homer for beginning the Iliad "in medias res." For 10 points, name this Roman poet of four books of Odes and a manual of literary theory entitled Ars Poetica.
Literature