Horace - 9781544628998

The young Englishman on leaving school goes to Oxford or to Cambridge: the young Roman went to Athens. There we find Horace at about nineteen years of age, learning Greek, and attending the schools of the philosophers; those same Stoics and Epicureans whom a few years later the first great Christian Sophist was to harangue on Mars' Hill. These taught from their several points of view the basis of happiness and the aim of life. Each in turn impressed him: for a time he agreed with Stoic Zeno that active duty is the highest good; then lapsed into the easy doctrine of Epicurean Aristippus that subjective pleasure is the only happiness.

• | Author: William Tuckwell
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 58 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544628994
• | ISBN-13: 9781544628998