Discuss Horace's portrayal of male drinking buddies in one or more assigned poems. Does the same social phenomenon exist today? (Note that wine was by far the most common form of alcoholic beverage in Horace's time and place, and that many other forms of alcoholic drinks that we know of in our century's global culture did not exist at all or were not known in Rome then.)

Discuss Horace's portrayal of male drinking buddies in one or more assigned poems. Does the same social phenomenon exist today? (Note that wine was by far the most common form of alcoholic beverage in Horace's time and place, and that many other forms of alcoholic drinks that we know of in our century's global culture did not exist at all or were not known in Rome then.)