CLASSICS EXPLAINED: The Poetry of HORACE

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In this episode of Literary Tales we dig into the so-called "praise poetry" of Horace and deconstruct the claim that Horace was a propagadnist for Augustus. On the contrary, Horace's traditionalism and praise of Augustus is tied to a greater concern in Horace: the romanticism of the agrarian idyll which was, in fact, the republican idyll before the Civil Wars. We end by discussing the possibility that Horace was the forerunner to "romanticism."
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).

[giulioluzzardi]

Livy gave "Augustus" a legit and Heroic family tree. Ovid was called " a smut peddlar and forced into exile by Augustan policy and Horace had his Family home and land confiscated by Octavian for choosing the wrong side( Mark Anthony) in the civil wars. Horace had to please Augustus in an attempt to simply "Survive". The lesson is; "Avoid Politics and politicians"..at your peril.

[nidhishshivashankar]

That “Horace was a gentleman, who really loved his friends”, was my first thought on seeing this videos title