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Informationen zum Autor Various Klappentext The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world's first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius. Zusammenfassung The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius. Inhaltsverzeichnis (Note: Translators' names appear after each piece) Introduction Part I: The Beginnings and the Age of Cicero (240 BC-42 BC) Editor's Note Plautus: Amphitryon (Sir Robert Allison) Terence: Phormio (Anonymous) Lucretius: from On the Nature of Things: Book I; Book III (William Ellery Leonard) Caesar: from The Gallic War: The First Expedition to Britain; The Germans (H.J. Edwards) Cicero: from The Orations: First Oration Against Catiline (Louis E. Lord) from Concerning Old Age (William Armistead Falconer) Catullus: from The Poems: VIII. Miser Catulle (R.C. Trevelyan) IX. Verani, ominbus e meis amicis (Hugh Macnaghten) X. Varus me meus (John Hookham Frere) XXXI. Paene insularum Sirmio (Andrew Lang) XLI. Iam er egelidos (William A. Aiken) LI. Ille mi par esse deo videtur (Lord Byron) LVIII. Caeli, Lesbia nostra (R.C. Trevelyan) LXI. Collis o Heliconii (John Hookham Frere) LXX. Nulli se dicit (Sir Philip Sidney) LXXXV. Odi et amo (Hugh Macnaghten) CI. Multas per gentes (Andrew Lang) Part II: The Augustan Age (42 BC-17 AD) Editor's Note Virgil: from the Eclogues: I: The Happy Tityrus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) I: Pollio (Charles Stuart Calverley) from The Aeneid: Book II (John Conington) Book III (William Morris) Book I (Sir Richard Fanshawe) Horace: from the Odes: I:5: Quis multa Gracilis (John Milton) I:7: Laudabunt alii (Lord Dunsany) I:9: Vides ut alta (Charles Stewart Calverley) I:11: Tu ne quaesieris (Charles Stewart Calverley) I:22: Integer itae (Samuel Johnson)III:5: Caelo tonantem (Charles Stewart Calverley) III:9: Donec gratus eram tibi (Robert Herrick)IV:7: Diffugere nives (A.E. Housman)IV:13: Audivere, Lyce (Charles Stewart Calverley) from the Satires: A Pert...
