Classics in translation . Volume 2 Latin literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paul MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463308203321
• Autore: MacKendrick Paul L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1952
• ISBN: 0-299-80899-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 pages)
• Collana: Classics in Translation
• Altri autori (Persone): MacKendrickPaul; HoweHerbert M
• Disciplina: 880.08
• Soggetti: Classical literature; Latin literature; English literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in print c1952.
• Nota di contenuto: Roman culture: an essay -- The haunted house of Plautus -- The woman from Andros of Terence -- Titus Lucretius Carus on the nature of things -- Selections from Sallust -- Selections from the speeches of Cicero -- Selections from Cicero's philosophical works -- Selections from the poems of Catullus -- Selections from the Georgics of Vergil -- Selections from the Aeneid of Vergil -- Selections from the Odes of Horace -- Selections from Ovid -- Selections from Livy's History of Rome -- The deeds of Deified Augustus -- Seneca's Medea -- Selections from the Satyricon of Petronius -- Selections from Quintilian's The training of the oraror -- Selected letters of the younger Pliny -- Selections from Tacitus -- Selections from the Sixth satire of Juvenal -- Selections from the Deified Julius of Suetonius.
• Sommario/riassunto: Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin.