Embrace your Roman muse!
As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts.
Requiring only a grounding in the basics, Beginning Latin Poetry Reader lets you explore the rich and diverse range of Latin verse, including epics, comedies, satires, lyric poetry, and even graffiti! Inside you'll find seventy selections from authors of the early Republic such as Plautus and Terrance as well as those of the Golden and Silver Ages such as Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal--all supported by helpful footnotes and English translations. This book also includes a clear overview of Latin syntax and the metrics of its verse, a glossary of all Latin words found in the readings, and a time line showing the historical and literary context of each author.
Lose yourself in:
the sparkling comedies of Plautus
the intimate love poetry of Catullus the majestic hexameters of Vergil the elegant lyricism of Horace
the refined sensuality of Ovid
the compelling satires of Juvenal the bristly epigrams of Martial
By:
Gavin Betts,
Daniel Franklin
Imprint: McGraw Hill
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 226mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 433g
ISBN: 9780071458856
ISBN 10: 0071458859
Publication Date: 22 August 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction A Time Line of Latin Literature A Map of Italy, Greece, and the Troad A Map of Rome in Late Antiquity Forma Urbis Romae Abbreviations POETRY SELECTIONS ENNIUS The Dream of Ilia PLAUTUS A Quarrel Between Slaves TERENCE An Insolent Slave —Verse Epitaphs CATULUS The New Eroticism LUCRETIUS The Inevitability of Death True Piety CATULLUS Love and Rejection The Effect of Love Lesbia's Sparrow Dental Hygiene in the Provinces A Social Climber An Invitation to Dinner A Brother's Tears Ariadne on Naxos PUBLILIUS SYRUS Worldly Wisdom VERGIL Unrequited Love Italy Orpheus and Eurydice Of Arms and the Man The Capture of a Royal Palace The Shade of Dido The Emperor Augustus The Roman Mission HORACE Hope Not for Immortality The Death of a Friend A Quiet Drink Seize the Day! An Old Love Revived Caught by a Bore! The Lessons of Homer Live How We Can, Yet Die We Must The Favor of the Muse PROPERTIUS An Intoxicated Lover Love's Miseries Therefore Is Love Said to Be a Child ... The End of a Wild Party TIBULLUS The Golden Age A Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest ... LYGDAMUS You Are My Heart's Desire OVID Sophistication Ars amātōria 3.113–128 The Immortality of Verse Ovid's Last Night in Rome Deucalion and Pyrrha A Storm at Sea Arion and the Dolphin Ovid's Early Life Pyramus and Thisbe MANILIUS The Folly of Human Desires PHAEDRUS The Horse and the Wild Boar PERSIUS An Atypical Poet SENECA Is There Life After Death? LUCAN Pompey and Caesar Cato at the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon VALERIUS FLACCUS A Pep Talk STATIUS Insomnia SILIUS ITALICUS Scipio and Syphax MARTIAL A Pleasant Retirement Some Odd Characters Wisecracks The Happy Life A Roman's Day JUVENAL The Necessity of Writing Satire An Adventurous Woman The Emptiness of Military Glory —The Vigil of Venus CLAUDIAN The Happy Peasant Grammar Metrics Translations Glossary
