The author of this work says that he would not like to have a crooked nose even if it meant having handsome black eyes and black hair. It compares the evolution of vocabulary to the way that trees change their leaves. It also mocks the insistence on educating Roman youths in the ability to divide sums of money, while the Greeks were given eloquence by the Muse. This work asks what a painter's ability to draw a cypress matters if the painter has been commissioned to paint a sailor swimming away from a shipwreck after discussing the spectacle of a human head being joined to a horse's neck. It argues that a play should have exactly five acts, and that small mistakes in composition should be forgiven, because "even Homer nods." It also argues that poetry should be given the same consideration as painting, thus coining the phrase "ut pictura poesis," and it also coined the phrase "in medias r
The author of this work says that he would not like to have a crooked nose even if it meant having handsome black eyes and black hair. It compares the evolution of vocabulary to the way that trees change their leaves. It also mocks the insistence on educating Roman youths in the ability to divide sums of money, while the Greeks were given eloquence by the Muse. This work asks what a painter's ability to draw a cypress matters if the painter has been commissioned to paint a sailor swimming away from a shipwreck after discussing the spectacle of a human head being joined to a horse's neck. It argues that a play should have exactly five acts, and that small mistakes in composition should be forgiven, because "even Homer nods." It also argues that poetry should be given the same consideration as painting, thus coining the phrase "ut pictura poesis," and it also coined the phrase "in medias res." For 10 points, name this treatise on poetics by Horace.
The author of this work says that he would not like to have a crooked nose even if it meant having handsome black eyes and black hair.
Ars Poetica [or The Art of Poetry]