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LITERARY TEXTS. Appian, "The civil wars : a) The crisis of the late republic, b) The problem of land and of Tiberius Gracchus, c) Spartacus and the great slave revolt" -- Augustus, "The accomplishments of the deified Augustus" -- Catullus, "Selected Poems" -- Cicero, M. "In defense of Archias," "Letters" -- Cicero, Q., "Running for office : a handbook" -- Epictetus, "A Handbook of stoic philosophy" -- Horace, "Satires," "Odes" -- Juvenal, "Satires" -- Livy, "The history of Rome from its foundation" -- Lucretius, "On the nature of things" -- Martial, "On the spectacles," "Epigrams" -- Novatian, "On the spectacles" -- Ovid, "The art of love, Book 1," "Fasti," "Tristia" -- Perpetua, "The passion of Perpetua and Felicitas" -- Petronius, "Trimalchio's dinner party" -- Pliny the Younger, "Letters" -- Plutarch, "The life of Cato the Elder," "The life of Aemilius Paullus" (chs. 26-34) -- Polybius, "Histories" -- Quintilian, "The instruction of an orator" -- Seneca the Younger, "Philosophical letters," "The ascension of the Pumpkinhead Claudius into heaven" -- Sulpicia, "Elegies" -- Valerius Maximus, "Memorable deeds and sayings" -- Vergil, "Eclogues" (1, 4) -- DOCUMENTARY SECTION. Inscriptions -- Laws of the twelve tables -- A Roman calendar -- A Roman schoolbook (Colloquia Monacensia) -- APPENDICES. Roman naming conventions ; Roman time-reckoning ; Roman currency, weights and measures -- List of Roman emperors to 337 AD -- Notes on the texts and translations. |
| Abstract |
""Terrific ... exactly the sort of collection we have long needed: one offering a wide range of texts, both literary and documentary, and that--with the inclusion of Sulpicia and Perpetua--allows students to hear the voices of actual women from the ancient world. The translations themselves are fluid; the inclusion of long extracts allows students to sink their teeth into material in ways not possible with traditional source books. The anonymous texts, inscriptions, and other non-literary material topically arranged in the ' Documentary' section will enable students to see how the documentary evidence supplements or undermines the views advanced in the literary texts. This is a book that should be of great use to anyone teaching a survey of the history of Ancient Rome or a Roman Civilization course. I look forward to teaching with this book which is, I think, the best source book I have seen for the way we teach these days."--David Potter, University of Michigan"--Provided by publisher. |
