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What was Horace’s full name?
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
When was Quintus Horatius Flaccus born?
December 8th, 65 BC
Where was Horace born?
Venusia
Where was Venusia
Apulia (on the border with Lucania)
What was Venusia?
a military colony in Apusia
What was Horace’s father’s class?
freedman
What other author’s father was a freedman?
Lucilius
What was Horace’s father’s profession?
cofactor exactionum
What was a cofactor exactionum?
collector of payments at auctions
Whose school did Horace attend at Rome?
Orbilius
What did Horace call Orbilius?
plagosus
What does plagosus mean?
full of blows
What did Orbilius emphasize in his teaching?
archaic poets
What work did Horace claim to know by heart?
the Odusia
Who was Horace’s paedagogus?
his father
Where did Horace go to study from Rome?
Athens
How old was horace when he went to Athens?
20
Whose republican army did Horace join in Athens?
Brutus
What office did Horace hold in Brutus’s army?
military tribune w/ command over a legion
Where did Horace throw down his shield in 42 BC?
Philippi
Who threw down their shields before Horace?
Archilocus, Anacreon, Alceaus
What penalty did Horace suffer?
his Venusian farm was confiscated
What job did Horace have after he lost his farm?
scriba quaestorius
What was a scriba quaestorius?
scribe in the treasury
Who introduced Horace to Maecenas?
Vergil and Varius Rufus
What did Maecenas give Horace in 33 BC?
a Sabine farm
What job offer from Augustus did Horace refuse?
personal secretary
To whom did Horace write a proempticon?
Vergil
Who supposedly accompanied Horace to Brundisium?
Vergil
What did Horace call Vergil?
animae meae dimidium
What does animae meae dimidium mean?
“half of my soul”
When did Horace die?
November 27, 8 BC
Who died two months before Horace?
Maecenas
Who included a Vita Horati in the De Poetis of his De Viris Illustribus
Suetonius
How long were the Epodes
17 poems
What was the Epodes?
a collection of short poems
When were the Epodes written?
between 41 BC and 30 BC
With what other work were the Epodes published?
the second book of Satires
What did Horace call the Epodes?
the Iambi
What meters were included in the Epodes?
iambic trimeters, hexameters, etc
What is the predominating rhythm of the Epodes?
iambic
To whom is the prefatory poem of the Epodes addressed?
Maecenas
Whom does Horace say he will accompany in the Epodes?
Maecenas
An invective against what witch is included in the Epodes?
Canidia
An playful invective against Maecenas and garlic is included in what work of Horace?
Epodes
In the Epodes, what does Horace claim to be the first to do?
to bring Archilochus’ iambs to Latium
In the Epodes, what does Horace say he is not bringing to Rome?
the subjects and words that pursued Lycambes
Who influenced Horace in the Epodes?
Archilochus and Callimachus
What is the tenth epode?
a reverse proempticon to Maevius
On whose work did Horace base the Epodes?
Archilocus and Hipponax
How many books make up the Satires?
2
How many satires make up the Satires?
18
How many satires make up book 1 of the Satires?
10
When was the first book of satires published?
35 BC
How many satires made up the second book of Satires?
8
When was the second book of Satires published?
30 BC
On whose work did Horace model his Journey to Brundisium?
Lucilius’ journey to Sicily
What topics are covered in the Satires?
Ofellus, Stoic Damasippus, Stertinius, gastronomic theory of Catius, Tiresias and Ulysses on building estate, Horace and the slave Davus, rich man Nasidienus
What event in the Satires was a cure for Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis
Nasidienus expounding on gastronomic theory in his home
What did Quintilian say about satire?
satura tota nostra est
Whom did Horace credit with the invention of satire?
Lucilius
Who was the first to write satire?
Ennius
Who mad up Quintilian’s line of satiric poets?
Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal
What was the Latin name for the Odes?
Carmina
How many books make up the Odes?
4
When were the first three books of Odes published?
23 BC
Who inspired the Odes?
Pindar
What work in the Odes was composed at Augustus’ behest?
Carmen Saeculare
What is Carmen Saeculare?
a hymn to Apollo and Diana
What does Carmen Saeculare ask for?
prosperity for Rome and the government of Augustus
In what meter was Carmen Saeculare written?
Sapphic
For what occasion was the Carmen Saeculare composed?
Ludi Saeculares
Who performed the Carmen Saeculare?
chorus of 27 children
What meters make up the Odes?
Alcaic strophe, minor Sapphic strophe, and Asclepiadic strophe
To whom is Horace’s lyric poetry indebted?
Alceaus
Of whom does Horace call himself the heir with regard to the Epodes?
Archilocus
Of whom does Horace call himself the Roman version?
Alcaeus
What other authors influenced Horace?
Anacreon of Teos, Sappho, Stesichorus, Bacchylides, and Pindar
To whom did Horace write an ode about winter?
Thaliarchus
Which poets “bewitch the underworld with their song” in the Odes?
Sappho and Alcaeus
For what man does Horace express unrequited love in the Odes?
Ligurinus
What rural water-source does Horace address in the Odes?
fons Bandusiae
What famous sayings come from the Odes?
carpe diem and “ship of state”
In what meter were the Epistulae written?
hexameters
How many books make up the Epistles?
2
To whom is the prefatory epistle of the Epistulae dedicated?
Maecenas
What new literary genre did Horace introduce with the Epistulae?
verse epistle
Whom does Horace instruct on Epicurean precepts in the Epistulae?
Tibullus
Whom does Horace advise on reading Homer in the Epistulae?
Lollius
To whom does Horace talk about city vs country life in the Epistulae?
Fuscus
To whom does Horace talk about strenua interita in the Epistulae?
Bulliatus
What is strenua intertia?
frenzied torpor
Quincitus, Lollius, Numonius Vala, and Vinnius are all recipients of letters in what work of Horace?
Epistulae
What two long epistles are included in the second book of Epistulae?
one to Augustus and another to Julius Florus
What does Horace’s epistle to Augustus cover?
development of Roman lit + a criticism of admiration for archaic poets
What does Horace’s epistle to Julius Florus cover?
Horace’s daily life and pursuit of wisdom
What work of Horace might have been part of the Epistulae?
Ars Poetica
What is another name for Ars Poetica?
Epistulae ad Pisones
What was Horace’s source for the Ars Poetica?
Neoptolemus of Parium
How many lines make up the Ars Poetica?
476 hexameter lines