Tag: horace

In today’s post, Horace maintains that his poetic skills are too lightweight for epic and warlike themes – but his poem hints at a different story.

Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Today we publish all 20 of the Horace Odes so far on Pantheon Poets as a single selection in reference order. Access it here to hear the poetry in the original Latin and follow in English translation.

Signing off having completed his first book of Odes, Horace enjoys a well-earned drink and celebrates the superiority of such simple Roman pleasures over luxurious Eastern fashions.

Hear Horace’s poem in his original Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

Horace’s instinctive response to thunder from a clear sky prompts him to reconsider where he stands between Epicurean philosophy and the Gods of Olympus.

Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the ilustrated blog post here.

How did Horace begin his great project to develop a new Roman lyric poetry based on the Greek predecessors that he so admired?

Hear Horace’s first Ode performed in Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.

In today’s poem, a jealous lover burns with jealousy at an old flame’s stormy new affair.

Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.

See the illustrated blog post here.