Horace

In Our Time: Culture

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4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Horace (65-8BC), who flourished under the Emperor Augustus. He was one of the greatest poets of his age and is one of the most quoted of any age. Carpe diem, nil desperandum, nunc est bibendum – that’s Horace. He was the son of a freedman from southern Italy and, thanks to his talent, achieved high status in Rome despite fighting on the losing side in the civil wars. His Odes are widely thought his most enduring works, yet he also wrote his scurrilous Epodes, some philosophical Epistles and broad Satires. He’s influenced poets ever since, including those such as Wilfred Owen who rejected his line: ‘dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’.

With

Emily Gowers Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College

William Fitzgerald Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King’s College London

and

Ellen O’Gorman Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:49.9	Hello Horace who flourished under the Emperor Augustus was one of the greatest poets of his age and is one of the most quoted of any age.
0:57.0	Carpe diem, Nil Desperandam, Nook Espibendom, that's Horace.
1:01.0	He was a son of a freed man that is a former slave from southern Italy
1:05.2	and thanks to his talent achieved high satas in Rome despite fighting on the losing side in the civil wars.
1:10.8	His owes are widely thought his most enduring works, yet he also wrote his scurrilous
1:14.9	epodes, some philosophical epistles and broad satires. His influence poems ever since, including those
1:20.8	such as Wilfrodoane who rejected his line
1:23.0	dulche Ed decorum S. Pro Patriarch Maure.
1:26.1	We've meant to discuss Horace and his works are
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