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DEAD POET SOCIETY
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| In another amazing feat of dramaturgy, Jack Pulman resurrects the poet Horace (dead for 16 years) with no apparent physical deterioration. Horace recites what seems to be Odes 3.30 much to the delight of Claudius (whose applause awakens everyone else). Augustus (out of embarrassment ?) takes this opportunity to praise the moral Horace and bash the "smutty" Ovid. He claims he would never have Ovid in his house, evidently forgetting that he had exiled him to the Black Sea the year before. But then, if chronology mattered at all to this episode, Horace would be mouldering instead of moralizing. | ||||