Epistles by Horace

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Epistles by Horace is a collection of verse letters by the Roman poet Horace that blend moral reflection, literary criticism, and personal commentary in a conversational poetic style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry collection
verse epistles
work by Horace
alsoKnownAs Epistulae
Letters
author Horace
circulation manuscript tradition in antiquity
contains Epistle to the Pisos
Epistles Book I
linked to: Epistles

Epistles Book II
linked to: Epistles
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
dateWritten 1st century BCE
genre didactic poetry
literary criticism
moral poetry
satirical poetry
hasPart individual epistles addressed to friends and patrons
influenced Alexander Pope
Boileau
Renaissance literary criticism
Roman verse epistles
medieval Latin moral poetry
literaryForm verse letters
literaryPeriod Augustan age
meter hexameter
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Horace’s works
philosophicalInfluence Epicureanism
Stoicism
relatedWork Ars Poetica
Odes by Horace
linked to: Odes

Satires by Horace
linked to: Satires of Horace
style conversational
didactic
informal
subject patronage
poetry and poets
social life in Augustan Rome
theme ethical philosophy
friendship
literary criticism
moral reflection
personal conduct
poetic theory
the good life

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Imitations of Horace basedOn Epistles by Horace
Venusia mentionedInWork Horace Epistles
linked to: Epistles by Horace
Varius Rufus mentionedIn Horace's Epistles
linked to: Epistles by Horace
Ars Poetica preservedIn Horace’s Epistles corpus
linked to: Epistles by Horace
Satires of Horace followedBy Epistles of Horace
linked to: Epistles by Horace
Sermones followedBy Epistulae (Horace)
linked to: Epistles by Horace