Roman Poetry: From the Republic to the Silver Age

By Dorothea Wender

Book Overview

Thebest of classical Latin poetry in a vital English verse translation described by early readers as "superb." Ms. Wen­der, who is a published creative writer as well as a classicist, has done much with her unflinching translations to re­storethe powerwielded by the originalpoems.

She has increased the usefulness and accessibility of her collection by pro­viding a lively introduction to each of the nine poets she presents in transla­tion. When little is known about the poet himself, she places him within a coterie of contemporaries who are better known. The poets and works presented are: Catullus, Songs;Lucretius, Selec­tions from DeRerum Natura;Virgil, Eclogues 2and 4 and selections from the Georgics;Horace, Satire 1, 9("The Bore") and selected Odes;Propertius, Elegies;Tibullus, Elegy 1, 1; Ovid, Amores and "Echo and Narcissus" from Metamorphoses;Martial, Epigrams;and Juvenal, Satire 3 ("The City of Rome").

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809309637
• ISBN13: 9780809309634
• Release Date: July 1980
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.0"