An Unlikely Imperial Family: the Julio-Claudians

A History of Mankind (227)

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Complementing Virgil's Aeneid and its glorification of Rome and Augustus are Horace's six Roman Odes, three hundred and thirty-six verses in Alcaeus-style quatrains, published in 23 BC. These are addressed not to any one person, as some of his other poems are, but to all patriotic citizens.