Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It ...
Roman epic lays firm claim to being western civilisation's prime literary form. Roman Epic draws together 14 critically and methodologically distinct essays, focusing on particular epicists, their reaction to, influence on, and rewriting of each other. The book examines the formation and transformation of Roman epic from its beginnings in the ...
An anthology of poetry drawn from all of the genres practised during the early Roman Empire. This translation includes the work of Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Statius, Martial and Juvenal, as well as minor poets of the period.
Part of the "Poets in Translation" series, this book looks at the work of Marcus Martial, a Spanish poet working in Rome. The purpose of this series is to offer, within one volume per poet, the best verse translations of major classical and European poets through the ages.
The politics, literature and culture of Ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of specially-commissioned studies, 25 scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance. The ...
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