Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature

Name: Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
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ISBN: 9780195395167

ISBN-10: 0195395166

ISBN-13: 9780195395167

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter E. Knox, J. C. McKeown

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Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Literature in the Roman World provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two features of this extraordinarily fertile period in literary achievement as evidencedby this anthology are immediately and repeatedly clear: how similar the Romans' view of the world was to our own and, perhaps even more obviously, how different it was. Most of the authors included in the…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English



Preface


Maps


The Roman World of Books



The Early Republic


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, The Conspiracy of Catiline



The Age of Augustus


Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid


Horace, Odes


Propertius, Elegies


Ovid, Amores, Metamorphoses


Livy, From the Foundation of the City



The Early Empire


Seneca, Medea


Josephus, Jewish Antiquities


Lucan, The Civil War


Petronius, The Satyricon


Pliny the Elder, Natural History


Statius, Thebaid


Quintilian, The Education of the Orator


Martial, Epigrams



The High Empire


Tacitus, Annals


Pliny the Younger, Letters


Suetonius, Life of Nero


Plutarch, Life of Antony


Juvenal, Satires


Apuleius, The Metamorphoses


Lucian, A True History


Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


Postscript


Suggestions for Further Reading


Chronological Table


Glossary


Art Credits


Sources for Selections