# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:37:40.540Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.