This is a totally off the wall aside, but this got me thinking about movie ideas and I realized that a feature film adaptation of the life of Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace) could be a really good, but very dark and tragic commentary on our political age. 1/7https://twitter.com/PetreRaleigh/status/1361737613061853189 …
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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
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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
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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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