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 Boethius, along with the stylishly
narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.
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