id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9240 View source for Horace - Wikipedia .html text/html 2920 232 67 You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. Fraenkel, ''Horace'', 74 Ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to Augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.E. Horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as [[Archilochus]] in the ''Epodes'', Lucilius in the ''Satires'' and [[Alcaeus of Mytilene|Alcaeus]] in the ''Odes'', later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. Horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9240.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9240.txt