Ambition to Rise: Horace, Satires 1
Horace's first poetic collection presents poems which interact notably with other genres — epic, both mythological and didactic, epigram, Priapean material, etc. This higher poetic material helps this book of lowly sermones show poetic ambition and react to other contemporary poets such as Vergil.
Keywords: Satires, epic, epigram, parody, Lucretius
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