Everyone we hate is dead

Genre/Style: Ke$ha

Touchstones: Ke$ha, “Tik Tok,” “Die Young,” “Your Love is My Drug,” “Party at a Rich Guy’s House”

Themes: Symposia, personae, propaganda, carpe diem, the Golden Mean, Augustan history and politics, Maecenas

Work: The sympotic poetry of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)