Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE), known as Horace in English, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the period of the Civil War and the Principate of Octavian/Augustus. His poetry has been read and imitated continuously since antiquity, with a particularly rich tradition of imitation and response in the Renaissance and early modern period during which his lyric variety, use of hymnic form and moral authority created an association between Horatian lyric and the psalms of David.
Bio by Victoria Moul.