Quintus Horatius Flaccus ("Horace" in English)
wrote lyric and satiric poety during the Golden Age of Rome. He was
born in 65 BC. in southern Italy and died in Rome on 27 November, 8 BC.
Horatius was the son of a wealthy freedman and as such was given a
good education in Rome and Athens.
Unfortunately for him, Horatius was on the losing side of both the
plot to assassinate Caesar and the civil war between Antony and Octavian.
His writings brought him into contact with Virgil, and through Virgil,
Maecenas, a patron of the arts during the time of Augustus. Doors were
opened.
Today there still exisits several of his literary works :
There also exists the Sabine estate to which he moved in about 30 BC. This is located about 35 miles northeast of Rome near Licenze.the Epodes, Satires I-II, Odes I-III, the Ars Poetica, Epistles I,
the Carmen Saeculare, Epistles II, and Odes IV
Source: The Oxford History of the Classical World,
edited by Oswyn Murray,
John Boardman, and Jasper Griffin.