Ode 3.13

Horace (65–8 BCE) is, along with Virgil, the most celebrated of the Augustan poets. The son of a freed slave, he was a staff officer in Brutus’ army, which was defeated by Augustus at the Battle of Philippi. Horace, pardoned, returned to Rome and later wrote his Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles.

Christopher Childers’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, AGNI, Barrow Street, The New Criterion, and elsewhere. He is at work on a translation of Latin and Greek lyric poetry from Archilochus to Martial, under contract with Penguin Classics. He lives in Baltimore. (updated 4/2016)