{"slug": "horace", "label": "Horace", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6197", "qid": "Q6197", "description": "Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-249, -7], "span_label": ["250 BCE", "8 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -249, "year_label": "250 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "According to tradition (Horace, Odes, iii. 5), after the defeat of the Carthaginians at the Battle of Panormus, the Carthaginians release Marcus Atilius Regulus from prison and he is sent to Rome on parole to negotiate a peace or an exchange of prisoners. However, on his arrival, he strongly urges the Roman Senate to refuse both proposals and continue fighting. After this he then honours his parole by returning to Carthage where he is executed by being placed in a spiked barrel, which is then let roll down a hill.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278897656#Roman_Republic", "title": "250 BC", "revid": 1278897656, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -64, "year_label": "65 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209552386#Births", "title": "65 BC", "revid": 1209552386, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -28, "year_label": "29 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349908551#Literature", "title": "29 BC", "revid": 1349908551, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -22, "year_label": "23 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Roman poet Horace publishes the first three books of Odes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1287237096#Poetry", "title": "23 BC", "revid": 1287237096, "section": "Events › By topic › Poetry"}}, {"year": -16, "year_label": "17 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Augustus celebrates the secular games in Rome, for which Horace's hymn the \"Carmen Saeculare\" is commissioned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372034358#Roman_Empire", "title": "17 BC", "revid": 1372034358, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": -7, "year_label": "8 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Horace, Roman lyric poet and writer (b. 65 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#8_BC", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Deaths › 8 BC"}}]}