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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as almost the only Latin lyrics worth reading, justifying his estimate with the words: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words. " Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses and scurrilous iambic poetry. The hexameters are playful and yet serious works, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings". Some of his iambic poetry, however, can seem wantonly repulsive to modern audiences. His career coincided with Rome's momentous change from Republic to Empire. An officer in the republican army that was crushed at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, he was befriended by Octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, Maecenas, and became something of a spokesman for the new regime. For some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep") but for others he was, in John Dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave". His poetry became "the common currency of civilization", and he still retains a devoted following, despite some stigmatization after World War I (perhaps due to popular mistrust of old-fashioned patriotism and imperial glory, with which he was identified, fairly or unfairly). Horatian studies have become so diverse and intensive in recent years that it is probably no longer possible for any one scholar to command the whole range of arguments and issues.
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- Artist(s):
- Jacques-Louis David
LE SERMENT DES HORACES
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- Artist(s):
- Jacques-Louis David
LE SERMENT DES HORACES
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
L'Apothéose d'Homère, dit aussi Homère déifié
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Alcibiades
- Alexander the Great
- Allegory
- Apelles
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean-Jacques Henner
Horace tuant sa sour Camille ; Femme évanouie dans les br...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient history
- Crowd
- Horace
- Rome
- Serviceman
- Syncope (medicine)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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HORACE VENANT DE FRAPPER SA SOEUR
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- Portrayed subject:
- City gate
- Cuirass
- Helmet
- Horace
- Serviceman
- War trophy
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Horace enfant
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Boy
- Crown (headgear)
- Horace
- Ivy
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
César, Auguste (avec deux poses du bras), Mécène, Horace,...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- François Chauveau
Frontispice ; Calliope offrant la lyre à Horace
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- Portrayed subject:
- Apollo
- Calliope
- Crown (headgear)
- Horace
- Lyre
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Horace (Homme drapé, à mi-corps, tourné vers la droite)
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
L'Apothéose d'Homère, dit aussi Homère déifié
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- Portrayed subject:
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Alcibiades
- Alexander the Great
- Allegory
- Apelles
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Composition pour l'Horace de Didot ; Dessin d'architecture
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient history
- Architecture
- Man
- Sitting
- Temple
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- Date:
- 19th century
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