Horaz – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Bronze medallion depicting Horace, 4th–5th century (Source: Wikimedia)

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Basic data

Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Real Name
December 8, 65 BCE in Venusia
†

November 27, 8 BCE
Dichter
Rom

Iconography

Bronze medallion depicting Horace, 4th–5th century (Source: Wikimedia)

Horatii Flacci Sermonum (1577) (Source: Wikimedia)

Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov (Source: Wikimedia)

Horace reciting his verses, by Adalbert von Rössler. (Source: Wikimedia)

Horace, portrayed by Giacomo Di Chirico (Source: Wikimedia)

Horace in his Studium: German print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode 4.15 (in praise of Augustus). (Source: Wikimedia)

Horace in an anonymous late 18th to early 19th century engraving (Source: Wikimedia)

Bibendum (the symbol of the Michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of Ode 1.37, Nunc est bibendum. (Source: Wikimedia)

Odes 1.14 – Wall poem in Leiden (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Horatius, 1651/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horatius, 1651/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horatius Flaccus, Johann Christoph König - 1696/1734 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horaz, Krüger, Andreas Ludwig - 1768 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horativs, Johann Adam Bartsch - 1786/1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horativs, Carl Heinrich Grünler (ungesichert) - 1781/1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horaz, Johann Heinrich Lips - 1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Horativs, Gottlob August Liebe - nach 1765 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A003310 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on December 16, 2017

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