| Contents |
Introduction -- Maps -- LITERARY TEXTS -- Appian : "The civil wars" -- 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 : "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" ; "Fasti" ; "Tristia" -- Perpetua : "The martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas" -- Petronius : "Trimalchio's dinner party" -- Pliny the Younger : "Letters" -- Plutarch : "The life of Marcus Cato" ; "The life of Aemilius Paulus" -- 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" -- DOCUMENTARY SECTION -- Inscriptions -- I. Epitaphs and other documents about individuals -- Persons of senatorial status -- Persons of equestrian status -- Town councilors (decurions) -- Soldiers -- Persons certainly or probably freeborn -- Persons of unknown status -- Persons of freed status -- Slaves -- II. Proclamations by and for emperors -- III. Inscriptions relating to public works -- IV. Documents relating to festivals, games, and shows -- V. Prayers and dedications to gods -- VI. Curse tablets (defixiones) -- VII. Certificates of sacrifice from the Decian Persecution -- Laws of the Twelve Tables -- A Roman calendar : April -- A Roman schoolbook (Colloquia monacensia) -- Appendices -- Roman naming conventions -- Roman time-reckoning -- Roman currency, weights, and measures -- A list of Roman emperors to AD 337 -- Notes on the texts and translations -- Glossary. |
| Abstract |
This book contains writings by twenty-three ancient Roman authors, newly translated and equipped with brief introductions and explanatory notes. It includes some well-known classical works, intriguing texts by lesser-known figures, the words of ordinary people on epitaphs and other inscriptions, and some anonymous graffiti and utilitarian documents. The earliest texts included here, the Laws of the Twelve Tables, date in substance to the 5th century BC, the latest to around AD 250. A number of different genres appear: history, satire, philosophy, poetry, biography, and letters. The subjects range from early Roman legends to political history, slavery, the practice of religion, and many other topics.--From Dickinson Scholar website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-532) and index. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| Genre/form | Anthologie. |
| Genre/form | Quelle. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Sources. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| LCCN | 2013036580 |
| ISBN | 9781624660016 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1624660010 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9781624660009 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1624660002 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
