Saratov University Press, 1993. - 375 s. ISBN: 5292-012017. The book of the professor of Saratov University V. G. Borukhovych is dedicated to the life and work of the great Roman poet who lived two millennia ago. It consists of two parts: selected works of the poet in the best Russian translations and an essay of a biographical nature. It tells about the civil wars in Rome, the participant of which was Horace, about the life and life of this city at the turn of two epochs - the republic and the empire, about the poets - the predecessors of Horace. The work is illustrated with pictures from works of fine art of Rome of the time of Horace . For historians, philologists, a wide range of readers interested in Roman history and poetry