David R. Slavitt is the author of more than one hundred books including novels, poetry, reportage, and translations of Horace, Petrarch, Boethius, Sophocles, Lucretius, Dante, and others. He is coeditor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama series and the Penn Complete Greek Drama series. His own most recent verse collection is Civil Wars. Horace (65–8 BCE) was a Roman lyric poet of the age of Caesar Augustus. His surviving other works include the Satires,Epodes, Epistles, and Ars Poetica.