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Michael Grant
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LOCATION: Lucca 55050, Italy

BIOGRAPHY

President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1959–66. Author of History of Rome and others; editor of Latin Literature and others.

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Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace was an outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The most frequent themes of his Odes and verse Epistles are love, friendship, philosophy, and the art of poetry. Horace was probably of the Sabellian hillman stock of Italy’s central highlands. His father had once…
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