I really like this ode because my sister recommended it to me and I love how Cleopatra is represented in several different ways throughout the poem. I also like how […]
Category Archives: Horace
carpe diem: Odes 1.11
Horace’s Carpe diem consists of an invitation for the reader to appreciate the day in all its facets, in every moment, without thinking about tomorrow. It is the most famous […]
The power of fortuna: Odes 1.34, lines 1-15
I appreciate this poem because Horace here points to the influence chance, personified in Fortuna, has on the lives of everyone. He examines anxieties common to everyone, especially those living […]
The Return of Spring – Lucretius, Catullus and Horace (contributed by Viviana La Russa and Simona Borrello, with further contribution by Eugenia Russell)
Lucretius was the first author of Latin literature that dealt with the topòs of “The return of spring” in a passage of his poem “De Rerum Natura” (I vv.250-256). The […]
Horace Odes III.12 (contributed by Terry Walsh)
A beguiling lyric, Horace’s unique poem in this metre, and one does not even know how to divide up the verses. Who is talking and to whom? Is Neobule (a.k.a. […]
Horace, Odes 3.30 (contributed by Terry Walsh)
Horace’s sphragis or sign-off poem to the first three books of his Odes. The poem has a stately simplicity about it, which perhaps derives from the run of adynata in […]
Horace Odes 1.9 (Contributed by Nicholas Debenham)
In World War II General Heinrich Kreipe, the German military Governor of Crete, was kidnapped by the British in a daring raid by a Special Operations Executive team, led by […]
Horace Odes 1.5 (contributed by Anne Dicks and Eugenia Russell)
This is a totally brilliant poem. “One of Horace’s rare failures” is how a book which used to be in the Leicester University library described it – because of the […]
Horace Odes 3.29-65 (contributed by Llewelyn Morgan)
The second half of Horace’s very finest lyric – it combines a profound view of how to live life with the most exquisite use of poetic form. Just to give […]