Minor Latin Poets, Volume II: Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others [Latin]

by Reposianus, Nemesianus, Phoenix, et al.

A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.

This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in AD 416. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674994787
• ISBN13: 9780674994782
• Release Date: January 1934
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 6.7"