In Praise of Hercules

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Creator

JULIUS GAIUS CAESAR (100–44 B.C.E.)

Title

In Praise of Hercules

Coverage

London

Publisher

Heinemann

Date

1922

Subject

Destroyed before 14 C.E.

Description

Besides his Commentaries, bane of so many young scholars, the Divine Julius wrote, as a youth, a tragedy on Oedipus and a long poem praising Hercules. Pompeius Macer, Augustus’ librarian, proposed to the emperor that these works be published in Julius’ honor. He was forbidden even to think about it.

Juvenalia similis seniliis nec delenda neque legenda.

Juvenilia, like senilia, should not be destroyed, but neither should it be read.

- Rufus Bubile

Source

Laudes Herculis