{"id":92,"date":"2010-11-23T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/11\/23\/role-model-to-superheroes-the-father-of-horace-and-horace\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:35:10","slug":"role-model-to-superheroes-the-father-of-horace-and-horace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/11\/23\/role-model-to-superheroes-the-father-of-horace-and-horace\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Model to Superheroes: the Father of Horace (and Horace)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The elder Horace, a freed slave, was able to spend considerable money on his son’s education: accompanying him first to\u00a0Rome<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for his primary education, then sending him to\u00a0Athens<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to study\u00a0Greek<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0philosophy<\/span><\/a>. The poet later expressed his gratitude in a tribute to his father:<\/div>\n
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If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit… As it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. I could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do I feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman’s son<\/span><\/i><\/b>. \u00a0Satires<\/span><\/a>\u00a01.6.65\u201392<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Project Gutenberg<\/span>
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The Latin Library<\/span><\/span>
http:\/\/www.thelatinlibrary.com\/hor.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The elder Horace, a freed slave, was able to spend considerable money on his son’s education: accompanying him first to\u00a0Rome\u00a0for his primary education, then sending him to\u00a0Athens\u00a0to study\u00a0Greek\u00a0and\u00a0philosophy. The poet later expressed his gratitude in a tribute to his father: If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-role-model-to-superheroes","category-travel-for-poets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}