Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts

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Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Horace)
(2,164 words)

b. 8 December 65 BC in Venusia;

d. 27 November 8 BC;

Latin poet of the Augustan age, from humble origins (son of a freedman), who, through his work, became highly regarded in the most exalted circles.

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Four books of odes, one book of …

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Ott, Jessica, “Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Horace)”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts, English edition by Tine Jerke and Volker Dallman (2009). Original German-language edition: Geschichte der antiken Texte: Autoren- und Werklexikon. Herausgegeben von Manfred Landfester in Verbindung mit Brigitte Egger. Serie: Der Neue Pauly – Supplemente, 1. Staffel, herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester und Helmuth Schneider, Band 2. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2007). Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-8647_bnps2_COM_0114>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: 9789004167834, 20090831



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