Lebenszeit und Lebenseinstellung bei Horaz und Paulus

Horace takes up Epicurean philosophy in his ode to Leuconoe, albeit partly in ironic refraction. Paul draws on widespread anti-Epicurean polemics in 1 Cor 15. Despite the different starting points, both authors meet in the fact that one's conception of one's lifetime shapes one's attitude to life. Both plead in their own way for a carpe diem, a life in the present, which is oriented to the measure of the human.