This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest
period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a
slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his
friend Calvus just as highly; comparison of the two reveals an
extraordinarily close relationship. Horace mentions Varius Rufus in
the same breath as Virgil. Adrian Hollis prints fragments of up to
thirty poets, with an individual introduction and a translation for
each. Almost every genre of ancient poetry is represented, from
heroic epic to scurrilous lampoon. Hollis's commentary, fuller and
richer than any yet published, contains many new ideas. In some
cases (such as Varius Rufus) the fragments illumine the history of
this period, which saw the collapse of the Roman Republic and
establishment of the Augustan Empire. Taken together, these
fragmentary texts enable us better to appreciate surviving great
poets such as Catullus and Virgil.
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