The Satires of Horace and Persius

QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS was born in 65 B.C. HIs first work, the first book of Satires, was published in 35 B.C. About a year later, Mæcenas presented him with the celebrated Sabine Farm, and Horace was at liberty to the end of his life to do as he liked. Before he died he was famous: the Emperor Augustus commissioned him to write the fourth book of Odes. He died eight years before the birth of Christ.

Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62). A member of a distinguished family, he went to Rome in boyhood, was educated there, and came under the influence of the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, to whom he became attached in lasting friendship. His writings (only six short satires), preach Stoic moral doctrine. He exposed to censure the corruption and folly of contemporary Roman life, contrasting it with the ideals of the Stoics and of earlier Rome.

Niall Rudd is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. After lecturing in England during the fifties, he moved to Canada where he wrote a book on Horace's Satires. He has also published an edition of Juvenal's Satires and a book on Dr. Johnson's adaptations of Juvenal. In 1973 he was appointed to the Chair of Latin at Bristol University.

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