Beginning Latin Poetry Reader

List of Essays viii List of Marginalia viii Preface xi Introduction xiii A Time Line of Latin Literature xix A Map of Italy, Greece, and the Troad xxii A Map of Rome in Late Antiquity xxiv Forma Urbis Romae xxv Abbreviations xxvi POETRY SELECTIONS ENNIUS The Dream of Ilia 3(3) Annales PLAUTUS A Quarrel Between Slaves 6(4) Mostellaria TERENCE An Insolent Slave 10(3) Andria Verse Epitaphs 13(3) CATULUS The New Eroticism 16(6) LUCRETIUS The Inevitability of Death 22(3) De rerum natura True Piety 25(2) De rerum natura CATULLUS Love and Rejection 27(5) Carmina The Effect of Love 32(2) Carmina Lesbia's Sparrow 34(3) Carmina Dental Hygiene in the Provinces 37(3) Carmina A Social Climber 40(2) Carmina An Invitation to Dinner 42(2) Carmina A Brother's Tears 44(2) Carmina Ariadne on Naxos 46(3) Carmina PUBLILIUS SYRUS Worldly Wisdom 49(2) VERGIL Unrequited Love 51(3) Eclogues Italy 54(6) Georgics Orpheus and Eurydice 60(6) Georgics Of Arms and the Man 66(2) Aeneid The Capture of a Royal Palace 68(3) Aeneid The Shade of Dido 71(3) Aeneid The Emperor Augustus 74(3) Aeneid The Roman Mission 77(4) Aeneid HORACE Hope Not for Immortality 81(3) Odes The Death of a Friend 84(3) Odes A Quiet Drink 87(1) Odes Seize the Day! 88(2) Odes An Old Love Revived 90(2) Odes Caught by a Bore! 92(3) Sermones The Lessons of Homer 95(3) Epistulae Live How We Can, Yet Die We Must 98(3) Odes The Favor of the Muse 101(3) Odes PROPERTIUS An Intoxicated Lover 104(3) Elegies Love's Miseries 107(3) Elegies Therefore Is Love Said to Be a Child... 110(3) Elegies The End of a Wild Party 113(4) Elegies TIBULLUS The Golden Age 117(3) Elegies A Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest... 120(2) Elegies LYGDAMUS You Are My Heart's Desire 122(4) [TIBULLUS] Elegies OVID Sophistication+ 126(2) Ars amatoria The Immortality of Verse 128(4) Amores Ovid's Last Night in Rome 132(4) Tristia Deucalion and Pyrrha 136(3) Metamorphoses A Storm at Sea 139(2) Tristia Arion and the Dolphin 141(3) Fasti Ovid's Early Life 144(2) Tristia Pyramus and Thisbe 146(11) Metamorphoses MANILIUS The Folly of Human Desires 157(7) Astronomica PHAEDRUS The Horse and the Wild Boar 164(2) Fabulae PERSIUS An Atypical Poet 166(2) prologue SENECA Is There Life After Death? 168(5) Troades LUCAN Pompey and Caesar 173(4) Bellum civile Cato at the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon 177(3) Bellum civile VALERIUS FLACCUS A Pep Talk's 180(3) Argonautica STATIUS Insomnia 183(3) Silvae SILIUS ITALICUS Scipio and Syphax 186(5) Punica MARTIAL A Pleasant Retirement 191(3) Epigrammata Some Odd Characters 194(2) Epigrammata Wisecracks 196(2) Epigrammata The Happy Life 198(2) Epigrammata A Roman's Day 200(2) Epigrammata JUVENAL The Necessity of Writing Satire 202(3) Satires An Adventurous Woman 205(4) Satires The Emptiness of Military Glory 209(4) Satires The Vigil of Venus 213(5) CLAUDIAN The Happy Peasant 218(3) Shorter poems Grammar 221(35) Metrics 256(11) Translations 267(36) Glossary 303