The Classics of Ancient Rome: 30+ Masterpieces of Latin Literature

Epic, Satire, History, Philosophy, and Politics from the Republic to the EmpireBy Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius, Tacitus, Polybius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Sallust, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome Augustus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Flavius Josephus, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Marcus Aurelius, Titus Lucretius Carus, Terence, Tibullus, Petronius Arbiter, Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, Lucilius, Lucius Apuleius

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The Classics of Ancient Rome: 30+ Masterpieces of Latin Literature surveys the intellectual and imaginative range of Roman antiquity through epic, lyric, elegy, satire, drama, philosophy, oratory, biography, military writing, and historiography. Canonical poetic experiments stand alongside political speeches, imperial annals, and reflections on ethics, nature, and power. By placing works of statecraft beside intimate verse and mordant social criticism, the volume illuminates both the formal brilliance and the civic preoccupations of classical literature. Its contributors span the Republic and Empire, from the turbulence of civil war to the complexities of imperial administration and cultural memory. Poets, senators, generals, philosophers, historians, and observers of provincial life offer contrasting accounts of Roman identity, authority, desire, virtue, and decline. Though several figures wrote in Greek while engaging decisively with Rome and its Mediterranean world, their presence broadens the collection beyond a narrow linguistic canon, revealing antiquity as a multilingual literary and political culture. This anthology is especially valuable for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the Roman classical tradition. It invites comparison among genres and centuries, allowing epic ideals to confront satirical dissent, official history to meet personal correspondence, and philosophical discipline to encounter literary pleasure. Students and general readers alike will find in its breadth an educational map of Roman thought and an enduring dialogue about public life, private conduct, and the uses of literature.

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GenreHistory, Literary Classics

Length693 hrs 28 mins

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Publish dateJul 31, 2024

LanguageEnglish

1The Holy Roman Empire (Annotated)

26BOOK XIII. A.D. 54-58

2The Twelve Caesars

27BOOK XIV. A.D. 59-62

3Julius Caesar

28BOOK XV. A.D. 62-65

4Augustus (pt. 1)

29BOOK XVI. A.D. 65, 66

5Augustus (pt. 2)

30Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus

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6Tiberius

31PREFACE

7Caligula

32INTRODUCTION

8Claudius

33MONUMENTUM ANCYRANUM.

9Nero

34Μεθηρμηνευμέναι ὑπεγράφησαν πράξεις τε καὶ δωρεαὶ Σεβαστοῦ θεοῦ, ἃς ἀπέλιπεν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ἐνκεχαραγμένας χαλκαῖς στήλαις δυσί.

10Galba

35Below is a copy of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he subjected the whole world to the dominion of the Roman people, and of the amounts which he expended upon the commonwealth and the Roman people, as engraved upon two brazen columns which are set up at Rome.1

11Otho

36Supplement.

12Vitellius

37CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

13Vespasian

38BIBLIOGRAPHY. Abbreviations as used in the Notes are put in parentheses.

14Titus

39The Civil War

15Domitian

40Book 1

16The Annals

41Book 2