 Though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.Ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to Augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.Horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as Archilochus in the "Epodes", Lucilius in the "Satires" and Alcaeus in the "Odes", later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him.