The last poets of imperial Rome.
By: Translated with introductions, notes and glossary, by Harold Isbell.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [Middlesex, Eng; Baltimore]
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Latin poetry -- Translations into English.; Rome -- Poetry.
Description: A collection of Latin verse, translated into English, of the second to the fifth centuries A.D. from all parts of the Roman Empire and beyond: Italy, Spain, Carthage, Gaul, Ireland. There is a wide variety of themes: pastoral, mythological, Christian philosophical, aristocratic life and customs, the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and regrets at the passing of the Empire. Running through all this is the theme of the fall of Rome, both literally in the destruction of the city, and generally in its gradual decline as cultural and political world centre.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus: The hunt.; title: The night watch of Venus.; title: Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Bissula. The Moselle. The crucifixion of Cupid.; title: On the freshly blooming roses.; title: Claudius Claudianus: The rape of Proserpine. Epithalamium for Honorius Augustus and Maria, daughter of Stilicho.; title: Aurelius Prudentius Clemens: Prologue. The battle for the soul of man. Hymns for the various hours and days. Epilogue.; title: Rutilius Claudius Namatianus: Concerning his return.; title: Paulinus of Pella: Thanksgiving.; title: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Philosophy's warning.; title: Columba: In praise of the Father.; title: Alcuin: The dispute between winter and spring.