id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8408 Horace - Wikipedia .html text/html 13106 1306 68 Founded by Plato, The Academy was now dominated by Epicureans and Stoics, whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from Venusia.[19] Meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of Roman youth, such as Marcus, the idle son of Cicero, and the Pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.[20] It was in Athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of Greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in Athens than in Rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by Asinius Pollio and Augustus).[21] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8408.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8408.txt