Horace and His Influence (Classic Reprint)

EDITORS' PREFACE
THE VOLUME on Horace and His Influence
by Doctor Showerman is the
second to appear in the Series, known
as "Our Debt to Greece and Rome."
Doctor Showerman has told the story of
this influence in what seems to us the most
effective manner possible, by revealing the
spiritual qualities of Horace and the reasons
for their appeal to many generations of men.
These were the crown of the personality and
work of the ancient poet, and admiration of
them has through successive ages always been
a token of aspiration and of a striving for
better things.
The purpose of the volumes in this Series
will be to show the influence of virtually all of
the great forces of the Greek and Roman civilizations
upon subsequent life and thought and
the extent to which these are interwoven into
the fabric of our own life of to-day. Thereby
we shall all know more clearly the nature of
our inheritance from the past and shall compre-
[ix] hend more steadily the currents of o

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER; CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUND; SABINE HILLS ; EDITORS' PREFACE • ; INTRODUCTION: THE DYNAMISM OF; THE FEW •; I HORACE INTERPRETED; PAGE ; II ; VII; IX; X III; The Appeal of Horace 3; I Horace the Person 6; 2 Horace the Poet - 9; 3 Horace the Interpreter of His Times; Horace the Duality 23; 1 The Interpreter of Italian Landscape; 25; ii The Interpreter of Italian Living 28; 1lI The Interpreter of Roman; Religion 31; IV The Interpreter of the Popular; Wisdom 35; Horace and Hellenism 38; 4 Horace the Philosopher of Life; Horace the Spectator and Essayist 39; i The Vanity of Human Wishes 44; ii The Pleasures of thi