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“A fantastic ramble through ancient Rome.”
The Memoirs of Horace (1860) is the third edition in the Classical Dumas Series, and the first English translation of another neglected work, despite it having been highly admired by the painter Delacroix. Alexandre Dumas, père makes us imagine that he has found a long-lost manuscript in the Vatican Library, the autobiography of the Roman poet, in which way he can assume the mask of the poet and bring to life the characters and events of the first century BC: Sulla, Marius, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Catiline, Cicero, Crassus, Octavian, and Agrippa; the crossing of the Rubicon, Pharsalus, Actium, and the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. Drawing again from a wide range of source material, the great storyteller also introduces us to daily life in Rome, the food and wine, the literature and philosophy, and the games, all in vivid detail. Through The Memoirs of Horace, we are once again able to come to a much deeper appreciation of the great French author.
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