person
Horace
also: Horátius, Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC), Latin lyric and satirical poet; paired with Pindar as the range of classical love poetry, and with Juvenal and Martial as satirists who documented Augustan moral decay.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Horace's satires arose, Juvenal cracked his whip, and Martial scattered his witticisms
Horace (65–8 BC), Juvenal (c. 60–130 AD), and Martial (c. 38–104 AD): the three great Roman verse satirists, cited as evidence that blasé cynicism flourished under the Augustan and imperial corruption of Roman morals.