The Portable Roman Reader

By Basil Davenport

Book Overview

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670010561
• ISBN13: 9780670010561
• Release Date: August 1959
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful for a student

I'm a freshman in high-school and am very interested in Classical literature and history. This book is wonderful. It gives you a flavor for some of the greatest Roman authors, and also gives you a feel for the time they were written. The introduction is wonderfully written, and his insight on the Roman culture is really quite interesting. I wish Davenport had done more books, one on Greek literature would have been spectacular, but to my knowladge there are no more. :( I highly recomend this book for a young person interested in Roman authors. He'll take you from early Roman comedy through the Republic, the Golden and Silver Ages, to the bitter end of the Empire.