Horace

A child strays from his nurse on Mount Vultur and is found asleep beneath wild leaves, as wood-pigeons seem to have tucked him in. That child is Horace, the future poet who would never hide that his father had been a slave.

In this late-19th-century biography, Sir Theodore Martin traces Horace’s rise from a small farm near Venusia to the literary circles of first-century-BC Rome. The son of a freedman, Horace is taken to the capital for an education among the privileged, while his father teaches him not to be ashamed of his origins—or dazzled by wealth and rank. As political turmoil draws him toward a soldier’s life, the values of his childhood face a stern test. Can Horace keep his independence in a city where birth and fortune seem to decide a man’s worth?

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