• Theme: Praise to Diana (Roman goddess of the hunt) & Apollo (Roman god of the sun and the arts)
Ode 3
• Theme: Carpe diem & the inevitability of death
Ode 5
• Theme: Death in war is glorious; death in a luxurious life isn’t.
Ode 11
• Theme: An invitation to Leuconoe to stop worrying about the future or the past—enjoy the now!
Ode 16
• Theme: True joy and contentment—finding them in moderate & simple lives
Ode 30
• Theme: Praising friendship that stands by when the going gets tough (as opposed to fair-weather lovers).
Ode 34
• Theme: Horace compares Rome’s rise and fall against Athens and Troy through history
Ode 37
• Theme: Praise and prayer to Cleopatra after the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.