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The Oxford anthology of Roman literature / edited by Peter E. Knox and J. C. McKeown.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Latin Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: vii, 633 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195395167
  • 9780195395150
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 870.8/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6163 .O95 2013
Contents:
The Roman world of books: The early period: Plautus , The brothers Menaechmus -- Polybius, The histories -- The late republic: Lucretius, On the nature of the universe -- Catullus, Poems -- Cicero, Against Catiline -- In defense of Caelius -- Julius Caesar, The Gallic war -- Sallust, Catiline's conspiracy -- The Augustan age: Virgil, Georgics -- Aeneid -- Propertius, Elegies -- Horace, Odes -- Livy, From the foundation of the city -- Ovid, Amores -- Metamorphoses -- The early empire: Seneca, Medea -- Josephus, Jewish antiquities -- Lucan, Civil war -- Petronius, The Satyricon -- Pliny the Elder, Natural history -- Statius, Thebaid -- Quintilian, The orator's education -- Martial, Epigrams -- The high empire: Tacitus, Annals -- Pliny the Younger, Epistles -- Suetonius, Life of Nero -- Plutarch, Antony -- Juvenal, Satires -- Apuleius, Metamorposes -- Lucian, True history -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Roman world of books: The early period: Plautus , The brothers Menaechmus -- Polybius, The histories -- The late republic: Lucretius, On the nature of the universe -- Catullus, Poems -- Cicero, Against Catiline -- In defense of Caelius -- Julius Caesar, The Gallic war -- Sallust, Catiline's conspiracy -- The Augustan age: Virgil, Georgics -- Aeneid -- Propertius, Elegies -- Horace, Odes -- Livy, From the foundation of the city -- Ovid, Amores -- Metamorphoses -- The early empire: Seneca, Medea -- Josephus, Jewish antiquities -- Lucan, Civil war -- Petronius, The Satyricon -- Pliny the Elder, Natural history -- Statius, Thebaid -- Quintilian, The orator's education -- Martial, Epigrams -- The high empire: Tacitus, Annals -- Pliny the Younger, Epistles -- Suetonius, Life of Nero -- Plutarch, Antony -- Juvenal, Satires -- Apuleius, Metamorposes -- Lucian, True history -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

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