In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

In the autumn of 44 BC, after Julius Caesar’s brutal assassination, the ringleader, Brutus, was in Athens raising support for a full-scale conquest of Italy that would restore the values of the old ...

They are friends. Horace of ancient Rome and Harry Eyres of present-day London. It’s a friendship that took a while to develop. As a schoolboy at Eton, Eyres did not take to Horace. Blame the Latin ...

A review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Horace’s four books of odes have faced the test of time more successfully than any body of poems in ...

THERE has been in the last year a great revival of interest in Horace, — if one can speak of reviving what has never died or even slept. When Augustus Cæsar, in the year 17 B. C., called the whole ...

Swift Faunus, the god, will quite often exchange Arcady for my sweet Mount Lucretilis, and while he stays he protects my goats from the midday heat and the driving rain. The wandering wives of the ...

I must dispute certain statements in James Romm's review of my book "Horace and Me" ("More Lasting Than Bronze," Books, June 22). To mention only a few: Mr. Romm says that, in my discussion of the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers ...