Penguin Books Ltd, 2015. — 464 p. This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. The selections cover comedy and epic, history and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and each passage is prefaced by an...
Translated and edited by H. B. Richardson and Edward Payson Crowell. — Boston, Ginn & Heath, 1884. — 152 p. The present Outline History of Roman Literature is specially designed to meet the wants of schools. It is intended primarily to contain what a gymnasium student needs to know, and at the same time all such material taken'from Roman literary history as can well be employed...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 301 p. The transmission of the Seneca tragedies first became an object of critical discussion by the Italian humanists and has continued to occupy scholars to the present day. Besides a brief account of the critical work of Jodocus Badius (Ascensiana 1514) and of Girolamo Avanzi (Aldina 1517) the repertory lists systematically the conjectures...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 356 p. Statius' Silvae are argued in this book to be important social and literary productions. Traditionally derided as occasional and therefore inconsequential verse, they offer fascinating insight into the history, politics, art and literature of the Flavian period. They celebrate and explore in all its variety and ambiguity a flourishing...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 173 p. This book exploits recent reevaluations of Roman religion in order to argue in favor of taking the religious dimensions of Roman literature seriously, as important cultural work in their own right. Instead of seeing Roman religious and literary activity as derivative and parasitic upon Greek originals, the book questions the...
Albrecht von, M. A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius : With Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature, Volumes 1 & 2. - Brill Academic Publishers, 1997. - xviii + 1843 p. Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen...