Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.

Provides a guide to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, discussing the lives and works of the principal authors and placing them within the societal and

In this volume, we are offered a new perspective on Roman literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influe

The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of transla

The Romans succeeded in less than fifty-three years in subjecting almost the whole inhabited world of their rule. This book tells the story of the rise of Rome