The Latin reading blog

Next to Horace’ four books of odes, there is a fifth book with epodes or Iambi, as he called it. Iambic poems were an invention of the Greek...

Thanks to his benefactor Maecenas, Horace was owner of a small estate. In this function he had to officiate in ceremonies and this poem is ...

The expression carpe diem is well known, even amongst those without any further knowledge of Latin. It comes from a poem by Horace in whi...

There are elderly women who think they can still compete with young women in the prime of their beauty. This is not a modern phenomenon ...

This week I went to a new second-hand bookshop in my hometown: every book for 2 euros. I bought some books about gnostic religion and e...