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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 Catullusthe majestic hexameters of Vergilthe elegant lyricism of Horace the refined sensuality of Ovid the compelling satires of Juvenalthe bristly epigrams of Martial
Contents
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
