“If in a picture, Piso, you should see
A handsome woman with a fish’s tale
Or a man’s head upon a horse’s neck
or limbs of beasts of the most different kinds
covered with feathers of all sorts of birds
would you not laugh, and thinks the painter mad?”
The Ars Poetica is a celebrated work of Horace who lived in the first century B.C. during the Augustan Age which is known as the golden period of the Roman literature. Horace was a younger contemporary of Virgil and stands almost equal to him in the realm of poetry.
