num_pages: 454
description: Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Roman thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume · Complete translations of Plautus’ The Haunted House , Terence’s Woman from Andros , Seneca’s Medea , and the Deeds of the Deified Augustus .· Selections from Vergil’s Georgics and Aeneid, the poems of Catullus, Horace’s Odes , Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti , the Satyricon of Petronius, and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.· Selections from Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things , Cicero’s speeches and philosophical works, and Quintilian’s The Training of the Orator.· Selections from histories by Sallust, Livy’s History of Rome, Tacitus’ Annals and Germania , and letters of Pliny the Younger.
language: English
title: Classics in Translation, Volume II: Latin Literature
titlecomplete: Classics in Translation, Volume II: Latin Literature (Volume 2)
genres: Mythology, Literature, Classics, School
ratings_count: 19
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press