# Horace

> The poet Augustus kept close. Horace wrote odes so precise that two millennia later they're still taught as the standard for Latin lyric — and he did it while navigating the collapse of the Roman Republic and the birth of an empire, pen in one hand, allegiance in the other.

*Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/horace

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** -65
- **Died:** -8
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Quintus Horatius Flaccus fought for the republic at Philippi in 42 BC and lost. The defeat could have ended him, but Maecenas — Octavian's fixer — saw something and brought him into the fold. What followed was a career spent chronicling the new Augustan order in verse that somehow stayed light on its feet: the Odes became the only Latin lyrics the rhetorician Quintilian thought worth reading, the Satires and Epistles turned hexameter into a tool for wry moral observation, and the Epodes bit down in iambic. Ancient critics noticed the trick — Persius said Horace could make a friend laugh while sliding a finger onto every flaw. Whether he was Rome's most graceful sidestep artist or, as Dryden put it, "a well-mannered court slave" depends on where you stand. He died on 27 November 8 BC, sixty-five years into a life spent proving you could write for power without losing the tune.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 78.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 12.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #39
- **Category rank:** #91

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Literature, #Philosophy, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6197)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Horace)
- [ሆራቲዩስ](https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%86%E1%88%AB%E1%89%B2%E1%8B%A9%E1%88%B5)
- [Horacio](https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio)
- [هوراس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [هوراتيوس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3)
- [Horaciu](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horaciu)
- [هوراس](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [Horatsi](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatsi)
- [Huoracėjos](https://bat_smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huorac%C4%97jos)
- [Гораций](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9)
- [Гарацыюс](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8E%D1%81)
- [Гарацый](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%B9)
- [Хораций](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9)
- [Quintus Horatius Flaccus](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Horatius_Flaccus)
- [Horacije](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacije)
- [Horaci](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horaci)
- [ھۆراس](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [Quintus Horatius Flaccus](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Horatius_Flaccus)
- [Horas](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horas)
- [Horats](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horats)
- [Horaz](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horaz)
- [Οράτιος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Horacio](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horatsi)
- [Wikiquote](https://be.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%B9)
- [Wikiquote](https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9)
- [Wikiquote](https://br.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horatius)
- [Wikiquote](https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horacije)

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