Horace odes

• 4.15 to Augustus

  • Celebrates peace and prosperity thanks to Augustus
  • 13BC
  • Parthian standards recovered, gates of Janus closed
  • Golden age
• 4.4 Drusus and the Claudians

  • 13BC
  • celebrates Druses and Tiberius achievements and resultantly Augustus
  • predator and prey imagery
• 3.14 Augustus returns

  • celebrates return from his campaign
  • 23BC
• 3.6 Moral decadence

  • 23BC
  • moral laxity as the reason of Romes failings
  • Julian laws 18-17BC encourages marriage and condemned adultory
• 1.37 Cleopatra

  • makes out she’s evil, mad
  • 23BC, 8 years after Actium
• 9 A toast to Actium

  • celebrates Actium
  • 30BC
• Horace was a poet from Italy. His patron was Mycenae
• Carmen saeculare

  • a hymn
  • 17BC
  • to Apollo and Diana
  • sung by kids at the temple of Apollo
  • marks a new golden age