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Tragedies
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Seneca the Younger,Paul Jal,François-Régis Chaumartin,F.-R. Chaumartin |
"Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the aut… |
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Satirae
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Horace |
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with … |
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Heroides
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Ovid,Kennedy,Arthur Palmer |
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Letter to Juvenal
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Peter Whigham,Marcus Valerius Martialis |
Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nature, whose acute observations of life are tinged … |
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Metamorphoses
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Apuleius,Werner Krenkel |
To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases… |
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Carmina
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Horace |
"The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the c… |
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Metamorphoses
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Ovid |
Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by lov… |
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