
ISBN-10: 0141398116
ISBN-13: 9780141398112
A vintage advent to Latin literature, with translations of the simplest passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and lots of others.
This vintage anthology strains the advance of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire similar to Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. the decisions hide comedy and epic, heritage and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and every passage is prefaced through an creation to the writer and his impact. The translators diversity throughout heritage from Alexander Pope and Lord Byron to contemporaries. the result's a wide and fantastic review of the civilization of Rome and its Empire - an amazing advent to Latin literature.
Michael furnish was once born in 1914. He served as an intelligence officer throughout the moment global conflict, and as a result held educational posts on the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Khartoum and Belfast. Over his lifetime, he released approximately fifty books at the old global, starting from stories of Roman coinage, to biographies of Caesar, Nero and Jesus, to books on historic Israel and the center a while. a lot of his translations have been released in Penguin Classics. Professor provide moved to Italy in 1966, the place he spent lots of the remainder of his lifestyles till his dying in 2004.
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