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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess

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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess - Horace, and Harrison, Stephen
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"The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a materialistic society, avoid extreme emotions of any kind as psychologically damaging, place a value on friendship of all kinds, do not be afraid of death, and most famously live every day to the full as tomorrow may never come ...

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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess 2020, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691182520

Hardcover