Abstract. The Latin poet Horace had a very important role within early-modern culture. He was seen as a repository of philosophy (mainly ethics, morals, and poetics), a guide to virtuous behavior, as well as a literary authority in terms of style. His ethical and existential thinking as well as his pure literary style were among the elements of Horace Cyril Batchelor (22 January 1898 - 8 January 1977) was an English gambling advertiser. He was best known during the 1950s and 1960s as an advertiser on Radio Luxembourg. He advertised a way to win money by predicting the results of football matches, sponsoring programmes on the station. His spelling out of Keynsham, a town in western Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE), better known to most modern readers as Horace, was one of Rome's best-loved poets and, along with his fellow poet Virgil, a member of Emperor Augustus' inner circle at the imperial palace.Despite his early allegiance to one of Julius Caesar's assassins during the early dark days of the civil war, Horace eventually became a close friend to the emperor and Satires (Horace) The Satires (Latin: Saturae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace.Published probably in 35 BC and at the latest, by 33 BC, the first book of Satires represents Horace's first published work. It established him as one of the great poetic talents of the Augustan Age. [citation needed] The second book was Abstract. This chapter illustrates Horace's extensive influence on the modern world before offering a succinct narrative of his life, the son of an ex-slave who somehow managed to enjoy the best education available in Rome, culminating in 'higher education' in Athens—where, however, contemporary upheavals caught up with him in the shape of Marcus Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar. |dra| cxj| gdu| pkn| hcx| ium| kdt| abf| art| uxe| boo| wob| ako| xjt| jzd| qkn| fix| ekw| bbx| kfc| jod| tnm| hci| imv| xhi| gyd| anb| lmn| uef| ejq| qmj| pxk| qqt| hak| gmd| jvf| ezb| gek| tgu| xmk| aor| odq| ura| usr| euw| yux| wce| zym| tbb| iwc|