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In some sources, the Moirae have different parents, such as Nyx (“Night”) (Hesiod, Theogony 211ff; Aeschylus, Eumenides 961; Orphic Hymn 59; Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3. After the waters had subsided, Deucalion and his wife asked Themis how they could repopulate the earth. Horace may in fact have accompanied Maecenas, early in their relationship, to the battle at Cape Palinurus, where Octavian suffered a naval defeat ( Odes 3. As always, there were lesser-known alternative versions, including one in which Themis was a daughter of the sun god Helios ( John Tzetzes on Lycophron’s Alexandra 129). for example, by telling them that his talents are not equal to creating the poetic praise they deserve.

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To the muse Melpomene, Horace expresses his gratitude for the literary prestige he has won ( Odes 4. When the republican leader Marcus Brutus arrived in Athens about six months after Caesar’s death, Horace left school to become a tribune in Brutus’s army (43 BCE, Epist. The prestige of native literature was increasing so much that Caecilius Epirota, a schoolmaster, began to teach Virgil’s poetry. Horace says almost nothing about his activities as a scribe beyond listing the expectations that accompany the post among the pressures of the city from which his country estate affords pleasant escape ( Sat.This union of earth and sky resulted in the creation of not just Themis but also the rest of the Titans: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Thea, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys. The odes can be seen as rhetorical arguments with a kind of logic that leads the reader to sometimes unexpected places. These divisions are complementary rather than definitive and are part of the complexity of the book.

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When Horace was two (63 BCE), the consul Cicero discovered and suppressed Catiline’s conspiracy against the government. Of the three other erotic poems in the collection, only one is aggressive; two touch on the effect of love on writing poetry.She is the automatic suspect when Horace complains Maecenas has poisoned him with a garlic-laden feast ( Epod. The poem begins with a description of Mount Soracte and the countryside laboring under the snow and cold and concludes with a scene in the middle of Rome on a warm evening. It took part in the Social War, and was recaptured by Quintus Metellus Pius; it then became a municipium, but in 43 BC its territory was assigned to the veterans of the triumvirs, and it became a colony once more. In letters written to a range of addressees about ethical issues, the interplay between the specificity of social expectations and the universality of philosophical ideals comes to the fore.