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Title: Horace
Condition: New
EAN: 9781780761398
ISBN: 9781780761398
Publisher: Barbara Ward & Associates
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 15/06/2012
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Weight: 293g
Author: Peter Levi
Language: English
Subtitle: A Life
ISBN-10: 1780761392
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Biography
Topic: Literary Criticism, Language & Reference, Poetry & Drama, History, Ancient History
Release Year: 2012
Description: The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the emperor, while his legendary poems (Satires, Odes, Epistles) about friendship, philosophy, love and sex still have considerable appeal. This biography attempts to present a complete picture of Horace's life and world. It considers the details of Horace's romantic liaisons and why he never married, what the status of his father - a freedman - meant to the poet, and his distinctive brand of philosophy. In this acclaimed biography, Peter Levi - a fellow poet - has produced a thrilling and eminently readable book, the definitive on one of Rome's greatest poets and the times during which he lived.

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