It then advises to pick a subject that suits your powers, to not let a fourth character speak, to make all plays five acts in length, and to not present a comic subject in tragic meter.
According to Porphyrion, this work is addressed to L. Calpurnius Piso and his sons. The last in the author's second set of epistles, it begins with the metaphor of a painter who sets a human head on a body made from parts of different animals. It then advises to pick a subject that suits your powers, to not let a fourth character speak, to make all plays five acts in length, and to not present a comic subject in tragic meter. FTP, identify this treatise laying down the rules for writing poetry, written by Horace.
According to Porphyrion, this work is addressed to L. Calpurnius Piso and his sons.
Ars Poetica