The Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus or Horace was born December 8, 65 at Venusia, near Apulia, and died on November 27, 8 B.C. He was the leading lyric poet and satirist in the Augustan Age. He wrote the Carmen Saeculare for Augustus to celebrate a very important set of public games.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
Translated Into English Verse by John Conington, M.A. Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Third Edition. 1865.
For those who like a challenge, try to guess who or what is shown in the thumbnails before clicking on the image for the numbered odes. Most of them are clearly connected with the topic of the ode or at least with the imagery.
Horace Profile | Odes Introduction | Odes Book I | Odes Book II | Odes Book III | Odes Book IV
Primary Texts Index | Horace Links | Satires and Epistles of Horace
- Horace Ode I.1Maecenas
- Horace Ode I.2Prima Porta Augustus at Colosseum
- Horace Ode I.3Vergil
- Horace Ode I.4Boreas the North Wind
- Horace Ode I.5Deucalion and Pyrrha. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book I. 16th Century.
- Horace Ode I.6Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
- Horace Ode I.7Greek and Phoenician Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin about 550 BC
- Horace Ode I.8Christophe Veyrier Sculpture of Dying Achilles (1683)
- Horace Ode I.9Monte Soratte da Soriano nel Cimino
- Horace Ode I.10Mercury, by Hendrick Goltzius, 1611 (Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem).
- Horace Ode I.11Lachesis - One of the Three Fates
- Horace Ode I.12St Petersburg - Hermitage - Clio
- Graphic Index
- Text Index
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