Roman Poets

Name: Roman Poets
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ISBN: 9780375400711

ISBN-10: 0375400710

ISBN-13: 9780375400711

Edition: 1997

Authors: Peter Washington

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The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism - by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous - of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical splendor of Lucretius's meditations, the relentless imaginative energy of Ovid's narratives, and the sonorous beauty of the odes of Horace have been for two millennia a source of endless delight and instruction, and the work of these…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/11/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 253
Size: 4.53" wide x 6.54" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English