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Horace was the son of a humble father (a freedman, making Horace first generation free-born). His father clearly moved heaven and earth to put Horace through school. As a young man, Horace was moved to fight for the Republic alongside Brutus against Octavian and Antony. 2/7
Horace himself downplays this - as he would need to - but he was a military tribune, remarkable given his humble origins. I can't imagine he got that post without being ideologically and emotionally committed to the cause. 3/7
But of course Brutus and Cassius lose and Horace is forced to accept Octavian's amnesty. His father's family farm was confiscated to pay for the settlement of the veterans of the army that had defeated Brutus at Philippi, leaving him poor. 4/7
Horace gets a job as a clerk in the treasury (a fairly plum job) and begins writing poetry, ending up in the court of Octavian (now Augustus) and forced to walk a careful line to keep writing in the court of the man who destroyed his old life and controlled his new one. 5/7
I just imagine it as a potentially moving story about a clearly talented, very driven fellow from a humble background, forced to make the best of a bad situation and perhaps forever wondering if all of his compromises in life and his principles were worth it. 6/7
Clearly, you end with Carmina 3.30.1, the "monumentem more lasting than bronze" and a reflection on if the quality of Horace's art justified the compromises he had to make to produce it, perhaps reflected by Horace himself in his last years. end/7
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