“A poem is like a picture: one strikes you more if you stand near, another if you move further back.”
About Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, was born on 8 December 65 BC at Venusia, a Roman colony near the borderlands of Apulia and Lucania in southern Italy, and died at Rome on 27 November 8 BC. He lived through one of the most violent transformations in Roman history: the final collapse of the…