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The Portable Roman Reader

Name: The Portable Roman Reader
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
SKU: 9780140150568
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ISBN: 9780140150568

Contributor(s): Various, Author , Davenport, Basil Editor Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780140150568
Publisher	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date	January 1977
Language	English
MRP	£20.70 GBP
Page count	674
Item weight	142 g

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 Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.

The Portable Roman Reader

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Various, Author

Davenport, Basil Editor

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