This poet coined the phrase purple prose in a work that compared the art of painting to the art of poetry. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the Ars Poetica. This poet claimed he had built “a monument more lasting than bronze” in his collection of Odes.
ANSWER: Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
[10h] In the Ars Poetica, Horace praises Homer for starting the Iliad from this place narratively, rather than ab ovo (“ahb OH-woah”), or from the beginning. This phrase translates to “in the middle of things.”
ANSWER: in medias res [reject “in media res”]
[10e] Horace primarily wrote in this language. Other poets in this language include Virgil, who began the Aeneid in medias res, and Ovid, the author of the Metamorphoses.
ANSWER: Latin [accept lingua Latina]
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