Horace Ode 4.15 names the Augustan Age, defining a bounded period of history by reference to Augustus' mortal lifespan (aetas). By contrast, poetry's command of immortality gives the poet, not the ...

An important development of the Augustan era was that the printed word became readily available Augustan literature is the body of work produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I and ...

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The transformation of the concept of authorship in late republican and Augustan literature, which discusses Rome’s political and cultic reforms, is the subject to be investigated. Characteristic of ...

Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; ...