The Portable Roman Reader
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Various
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Portable Library
ISBN-10
0140150560
ISBN-13
9780140150568
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Viking Portable Library
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 27th, 1977
Print length
672 Pages
Weight
505 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.00 x 3.60 cms
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A collection of representative works of great Roman writers and thinkers from the founding of the Republic to the collapse of the Empire.
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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