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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.

Carpe de Am, Nile desperandum, Nuc esbibendum, that's Horace.

He was a son of a freed man, that is, a former slave from southern Italy, and thanks to his

talent achieved high status in Rome, despite fighting on the loose excited in the civil

wars.

He's owed us a widely thought he's most enduring work.

She also wrote his scarlet-ass-epodes, some philosophical epistles, and broad satires.

He's influenced poets ever since, including those such as Wilford Owen, who rejected his

line, Dulture Ed de Coram, S. Propatier-Mauri.

We'll be to discuss Horace and his works, Ah, Emily Gars, Professor of Latin Literature

at the UNUS-Eb Cambridge and Fellows in Johns College.

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

and Alan O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol.

And then O'Gorman, what do you know about Horace's background?

Well, as you've already mentioned, he was a son of a freed man, which makes it seem like

he started with considerable disadvantages in terms of status.

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