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Portable Library: The Portable Roman Reader by Basil Davenport (1977, UK-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140150560
ISBN-13
9780140150568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60243

Product Key Features

Book Title
Portable Roman Reader
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1977
Topic
Ancient & Classical
Genre
Drama, Poetry, Literary Collections
Author
Basil Davenport
Book Series
Portable Library
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
76-048083
Dewey Edition
18
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
No. 56
CLASSIFICATION_METADATA
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Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
870/.8/001
Table Of Content
(Note: Translators' names appear after each piece) Introduction Part I: The Beginnings and the Age of Cicero (240 BC-42 BC) Editor's Note Plautus: Amphitryon (Sir Robert Allison) Terence: Phormio (Anonymous) Lucretius: from On the Nature of Things: Book I; Book III (William Ellery Leonard) Caesar: from The Gallic War: The First Expedition to Britain; The Germans (H.J. Edwards) Cicero: from The Orations: First Oration Against Catiline (Louis E. Lord) from Concerning Old Age (William Armistead Falconer) Catullus: from The Poems: VIII. Miser Catulle (R.C. Trevelyan) IX. Verani, ominbus e meis amicis (Hugh Macnaghten) X. Varus me meus (John Hookham Frere) XXXI. Paene insularum Sirmio (Andrew Lang) XLI. Iam er egelidos (William A. Aiken) LI. Ille mi par esse deo videtur (Lord Byron) LVIII. Caeli, Lesbia nostra (R.C. Trevelyan) LXI. Collis o Heliconii (John Hookham Frere) LXX. Nulli se dicit (Sir Philip Sidney) LXXXV. Odi et amo (Hugh Macnaghten) CI. Multas per gentes (Andrew Lang) Part II: The Augustan Age (42 BC-17 AD) Editor's Note Virgil: from the Eclogues: I: The Happy Tityrus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) I: Pollio (Charles Stuart Calverley) from The Aeneid: Book II (John Conington) Book III (William Morris) Book I (Sir Richard Fanshawe) Horace: from the Odes: I:5: Quis multa Gracilis (John Milton) I:7: Laudabunt alii (Lord Dunsany) I:9: Vides ut alta (Charles Stewart Calverley) I:11: Tu ne quaesieris (Charles Stewart Calverley) I:22: Integer itae (Samuel Johnson)III:5: Caelo tonantem (Charles Stewart Calverley) III:9: Donec gratus eram tibi (Robert Herrick)IV:7: Diffugere nives (A.E. Housman)IV:13: Audivere, Lyce (Charles Stewart Calverley) from the Satires: A Pertinacious Bore and Sycophant (Alexander Murison) The Art of Poetry (Alexander Murison) Livy: from The History of Rome: The War with Lars Porsinna (B.O. Foster) Cato on Extravagance (Cyrus Edmonds) Ovid: from the Metamophoses: Book III (Joseph Addison) from the Epistles: Sappho to Phaon (Alexander Pope) Part III: The Silver Age (17 AD-130 AD) Editor's Note Seneca: Medea (Frank Justus Miller) Lucan: from the Pharsalia The Crossing of the Rubicon (Sir Edward Ridley) Petronius: from the Satyricon from Trimalchio's Dinner (Harry Thurston Peck) Martial: from the Epigrams I:32: To Sabidius (Thomas Brown) II:4: To Ammianus (F.A. Wright) II:35: Your legs so like the moon (W.T. Webb) II:84: Thou art a cuckold (Sir Charles Sedley) IV:12: At night no man do you refuse (F.A. Wright) IV:69: Setine and Massic at your board abound (J.A. Pott) V:34: Thou Mother dead (J.A. Pott) V:43: Thaïs for black (W.T. Webb) VI:66: In Fabius' will (J.A. Pott) X:47: The Meanes to Attaine Happy Life (Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey) X:47: The things that make a life to please (Sir Richard Fanshawe) X:61: Epitaph on Erotion (Leigh Hunt) Tacitus: from the Annals: The Government of Rome (John Jackson) from Germany: The German Character (William Peterson) Juvenal: from the Satires: The Third Satyr (John Dryden) Part IV: The End (130 AD-524 AD) Editor's Note Apuleius: from The Golden Ass Cupid and Psyche (Walter Pater) Anonymous: The Vigil of Venus (F.L. Lucas) Saint Augustine: from the Confessions: How He Robbed a Pear-Tree (William Watts) Boëthius: from The Consolation of Philosophy (H.R. James)
Synopsis
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 toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world's first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations- the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boethius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius., 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 toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world's first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Bo thius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.
LC Classification Number
PA6163
Copyright Date
1978
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