This collection is based on the required reading list of Yale Department of Classics. Originally designed for students, this anthology is meant for everyone eager to know more about the history and literature of this period, interested in poetry, philosophy and rhetoric of Ancient Rome.
Latin literature is a natural successor of Ancient Greek literature. The beginning of Classic Roman literature dates to 240 BC. From that point on, Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Consequently, Latin Literature outlived the Roman Empire and it included European writers who followed the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas, to secular writers like Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton. This collection presents all the major Classic Roman authors, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Horace whose work intrigues and fascinates readers until this day.
Content:
Plautus:
Aulularia
Amphitryon
Terence:
Adelphoe
Ennius:
Annales
Catullus:
Poems and Fragments
Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things
Julius Caesar:
The Civil War
Sallust:
History of Catiline's Conspiracy
Cicero:
De Oratore
Brutus
Horace:
The Odes
The Epodes
The Satires
The Epistles
The Art of Poetry
Virgil:
The Aeneid
The Georgics
Tibullus:
Elegies
Propertius:
Elegies
Cornelius Nepos:
Lives of Eminent Commanders
Ovid:
The Metamorphoses
Augustus:
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Lucius Annaeus Seneca:
Moral Letters to Lucilius
Lucan:
On the Civil War
Persius:
Satires
Petronius:
Satyricon
Martial:
Epigrams
Pliny the Younger:
Letters
Tacitus:
The Annals
Quintilian:
Institutio Oratoria
Juvenal:
Satires
Suetonius:
The Twelve Caesars
Apuleius:
The Metamorphoses
Ammianus Marcellinus:
The Roman History
Saint Augustine of Hippo:
The Confessions
Claudian:
Against Eutropius
Boethius:
The Consolation of Philosophy
Plutarch:
The Rise and Fall of Roman Supremacy:
Romulus
Poplicola
Camillus
Marcus Cato
Lucullus
Fabius
Crassus
Coriolanus
Cato the Younger
Cicero