Thrace

Reading notes

• The Odes §2.16 Thrace

  'Frenzied in war,' it too begs for the peace that wealth cannot purchase.

• The Odes §3.25 Thrace

  'White with snow,' the wild northern land of the Bacchant's vision.

• The Odes §4.12 Thracian winds

  The spring breezes that 'temper the sea' and fill the sails.

• The Epistles §1.3 Thrace

  Region northeast of Greece, source of cold north winds and of the savage peoples Horace invokes.

• The Epodes §13 Thracian

  Thrace, source of the cold north wind ('Aquilo') that makes sea and woods roar in the storm.