Despite a brutal grade-school education in which he was constantly beaten by his schoolmaster Orbilius, he was able to go to Greece for higher education just in time for the b
Despite a brutal grade-school education in which he was constantly beaten by his schoolmaster Orbilius, he was able to go to Greece for higher education just in time for the battle of Philippi. Like Archilochus, whose iambic style he imitates in his work Epodes, he too threw away his shield and ran. He eventually ingratiated himself with the patron Maecenas and devoted himself to literature, producing a Carmen Saeculare for Augustus and his Satires and Odes. For 10 points, name this Roman poet from Venusia, who also dabbled into literary criticism in his Ars Poetica.
Despite a brutal grade-school education in which he was constantly beaten by his schoolmaster Orbilius, he was able to go to Greece for higher education just in time for the battle of Philippi.
{Horace} [or Quintus {Horatius} Flaccus]