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9780140150568: The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140150560 ISBN 13: 9780140150568
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel.

This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1979
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140150560
ISBN 13 
9780140150568
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
672
Herausgeber
Davenport Basil
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