The only one of these poems to make a straightforward adaptation of an "epic theme" is number 45 oftheir first book, modeled on Bacchylides.
The only one of these poems to make a straightforward adaptation of an "epic theme" is number 45 oftheir first book, modeled on Bacchylides. Several of these poems are instructions for preparing asymposium, and others are the first use of political themes outside of epics in Latin. They also explain theirauthor's refusal to write an epic in the recusiato poems. A notable one of these poems orders Leuconoe notto toy with Babylonian fortune-telling and notes that "envious time will have already fled." The authorclaimed that these poems were inspired by Alcaeus and Sappho, and there are 88 of them in all. These werethe last lyric works by their author until the Carmen Secularae. For 10 points, identify these poems, whoseeleventh one in Book One instructs the addressee to "seize the day," that were written by Horace
The only one of these poems to make a straightforward adaptation of an "epic theme" is number 45 oftheir first book, modeled on Bacchylides.
the Odes of Horace 