The influences behind Conan the Barbarian

Following one thread, 4 works from Conan the Barbarian to Poems of Alcaeus. Back to all 28 works

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   23 BCE

   Odes

   Horace

   Augustan Rome. Augustan Rome. Written in Latin.

   Four books of lyric poems adapting Greek meters to Latin.

   What it handed down

   To Twilight of the Idols (1889)

   Stylistic influence, well documented.

   Nietzsche writes that no poet gave him the same artistic delight as a Horatian ode, praising its 'mosaic of words' in which every word radiates force. He held this up as the model of concentrated expression.

   Where it came from

   • Poems of Alcaeus, Alcaeus of Mytilene c. 600 BCE

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