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Created By Kayla Farrar

Latin II
Period 4

HORACE

EARLY LIFE & FAMILY

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known today as

Horace, was born in 65 BCE in Venusia, a small town in
southern Italy. Most of what we know
about Horace comes from what his poems.
Horace claims that his father was a
freedman, a coactor, who owned a
small farm there. Horaces father was
eventually able to save up enough
money to take his son to Rome and
send him to study at the best school
in the city.

IN THE MILITARY

After Julius Caesar was

assassinated in 44 BCE, Horace left
his school in Athens, where he was
studying philosophy, and joined
Brutus army, becoming a tribune.
Tribunes were usually
equestrians. Horace, along with
a few other tribunes, had
authority over several legions. He
fought at the Battle of Phillipi,
where Brutus army lost to Octavian
and Mark Antony. Horace survived
only because he fled the battlefield.
As a result, Horace was kicked out
of the military and his land was
taken away from him.

HORACE RISING

After he returned to Rome, Horace

befreinded two other young poets: Virgil
and Varius. The two later introduced
Horace to Gaius Maecenas, a wealthy
equestrian. Maecenas interviewed Horace
and invited him to join his circle of
friends a few months later. Maecenas
became Horaces patron and was often a
subject of his poems. In one of Horaces
poems (Satires I.6), he reflects on their
first encounter.

HORACE THE POET

Horace publish his first book, Satires I, in 35 BCE.

Satires II was published a few years later. Of his
works that did survive, the most famous would be
his Odes, a collection of lyric poems, of which
there are four books. Many of the odes were
addressed to a specific person, often about normal
activites or Horaces thoughts on a particular
subject.

HORACE
Wrote
Poetry
Exclusively

Incorporated
observations
of the world
into their
writing

Joined the
military
Mainly
Wrote
Novels

Satirist

Wrote
Poetry

GEORGE
ORWELL