The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Fifth Century A.D.By Various Authors
Length14h 40m
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The Oxford Book of Latin Verse is a capacious anthology that traces the formal brilliance and historical range of Latin poetry, from republican austerity to imperial refinement and late antique transformation. Bringing together lyric, epic, elegiac, satiric, and occasional verse, it situates canonical voices such as Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, and Lucan within a broader continuum of Roman literary art. Its style is necessarily plural: polished hexameters, intimate hendecasyllables, urbane elegiac couplets, and moralizing satire reveal Latin as a language of public authority and private feeling alike. As the work of various authors, the anthology reflects not a single biography but the accumulated intellectual life of Rome and its inheritors. The poets gathered here wrote amid civil war, imperial patronage, philosophical debate, exile, religious change, and the pressures of literary imitation. Their poems often respond to Greek models while transforming them into distinctly Roman meditations on power, love, mortality, memory, and civic identity. This volume is recommended to readers seeking both an introduction to Latin poetry and a durable companion for deeper study. Classicists, historians, poets, and general readers will find in it a disciplined selection of works that illuminates why Latin verse remains central to the Western literary imagination.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection.
- Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer.
- A combined Synopsis (Selection) briefly outlines the key plots or arguments of the included pieces, helping readers grasp the anthology's overall scope without giving away essential twists.
- A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds.
- Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.
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GenrePoetry
Length14 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateApr 8, 2022
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Table of contents
1The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (Annotated)
198ANONYMOUS
2Introduction
199Epicedion Drusi
3Historical Context
200M. MANILIVS
4Synopsis (Selection)
201The Milky Way
5PREFACE
202Comets
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6INTRODUCTION
203The Theme of the Astrological Poet
7NVMA POMPILIVS (?)
204The Rarity of True Friendship
8THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD
205Line upon Line
9ANONYMOUS
206A New Poetry
10An Ancient Lullaby
207The Rule of Fate
11Epitaphs of the Scipios
208Macrocosm and Microcosm
12L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
209Andromeda
13Dramatic Fragments
210ALBINOVANVS PEDO
14CN. NAEVIVS
211P. OVIDIVS NASO
15Dramatic Fragments
212Epic and Love Elegy
16His Own Epitaph
213Tragedy and Love Elegy
17T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS
214Love and War
18MARCIVS VATES
215The Captive of Love
19Vaticinium
216Love and Song
20Q. ENNIVS
217Cruel Dawn
21Romulus and Remus
218The Loves of Rivers
22The Speech of Pyrrhus
219Farewell to Love-poetry
23Character of a Friend of Servilius9
220The Dead Parrot
24M. Cornelius Cethegus
221Phyllis to Demophoon
25Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
222Elegy on the Death of Tibullus
26Toga Cedit Armis
223A Friend in Need
27Lesser Fragments of the Annals
224To Maximus: on the Death of Celsus
28Alcmaeon
225Lines Written in Sickness
29Andromache
226The Immortality of Poetry
30Cassandra
227ANONYMOUS
31Telamon
228TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR GERMANICVS
32Telamon
229At the Tomb of Hector
33Molestum Otium
230C. IVLIVS PHAEDRVS
34Medeae Nutrix
231Opportunity
35From the Iphigenia
232Epilogue
36Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
233ANONYMOUS
37The Same
234Precatio Terrae
38Scipio to Ennius
235Epitaph of Homonoea and Atimetus
39His own Epitaph
236The Complaint of the Garden God
40M. PACVVIVS
237L. ANNAEVS SENECA
41The Greeks set sail from Troy
238Corsica
42Genitabile Caelum
239Athens
43Speech
240Britain
44Womanish Tears
241On the Death of Crispus
45His Own Epitaph
242The Only Immortality
46L. ACCIVS
243The Last Pilgrimage
47The Argo seen by a Shepherd who has never seen a Ship
244Fatal Beauty
48Shorter Fragments
245Death has no Terror
49ANONYMOUS
246Hymeneal
50POMPILIVS
247The Lot of Kings
51VALERIVS AEDITVVS
248Mutability
52Q. LVTATIVS CATVLVS
249The Saying of Orpheus
53The Rising Sun of Roscius
250L. IVNIVS MODERATVS COLVMELLA
54PORCIVS LICINVS
251ANONYMOUS
55Terence corrupted by his Patrons
252C. CALPVRNIVS SICVLVS
56LAEVIVS
253M. ANNAEVS LVCANVS (?)
57M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS
254ANONYMOUS
58The Reward of the Scholar
255PETRONIVS ARBITER
59ORACVLVM
256'Come to me in my dreams'
60M. TVLLIVS CICERO
257True Nobility
61Marius
258Contrasts
62From the Odyssey
259Fire and Ice
63From Sophocles
260L. VERGINIVS RVFVS
64From Euripides
261P. PAPINIVS STATIVS
65C. HELVIVS CINNA
262On the Death of a Favourite Parrot
66M. TVLLIVS LAVREA
263The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
67Q. TVLLIVS CICERO
264A Villa at Tibur
68C. IVLIVS CAESAR
265To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
69C. LICINIVS MACER CALVVS
266'He hath outsoared the shadow of our night'
70The Death of Quintilia
267To Sleep
71T. LVCRETIVS CARVS
268M. VALERIVS MARTIALIS
72The Rule of Reason
269He sends his Book to Caesius
73Magna Mater
270To Silius Italicus
74Epicurus and the Fear of Death
271Life not Legends
75The Powers of Hell
272To Valerius Flaccus
76The World's Conquerors
273Character of a Happy Life
77Primitive Man
274Quintus Ovidius' Birthday
78Origin of Belief in God
275The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia
79C. VALERIVS CATVLLVS
276In Memoriam
80Hymen, O Hymenaee
277'The Ledean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above.'
81Attis
278The Villa of Julius Martialis
82Iunia weds with Manlius
279Diadumenos
83To Cornelius Nepos: A Dedication
280Earinos
84To Veranius: A Welcome Home
281To a Schoolmaster
85A Letter to Caecilius
282Long Life and Strong Life
86Farewell to Bithynia
283The Conditions of Friendship
87Home-coming to Sirmio
284Domestic Life
88The tender Love of Acme and Septimius
285Saturnalia
89'Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν'
286To the Rhine to send Trajan safe home
90Lesbia's Sparrow
287A purer Sappho
91To Lesbia, not to count Kisses
288Posthumous Fame
92Everlasting Love
289Contemporary Fame
93Woman's Words
290Valedictory
94Man's Ingratitude
291ANONYMOUS
95To Quintius: A Supplication
292P. AELIVS HADRIANVS IMPERATOR
96Loving and Liking
293ANONYMOUS
97Miser Catulle
294Epitaph of Serenus
98Odi et Amo
295Epitaph of Ursus
99Num te leaena...?
296ANNIVS FLORVS
100Nuntium Remittit Cynthiae
297Apollo and Bacchus
101To Alfenus, who betrayed him
298Bacchus
102Vitam puriter egi
299Women
103To Manlius: written in affliction
300Evil Communications
104The Friendship of Allius
301A Study in Antithesis
105At the Tomb of his Brother
302French and English
106To Calvus: on the Death of Quintilia
303The Rarity of Poets and their Patrons
107Nothing to do
304C. SVLPICIVS APOLLINARIS
108He craves Cornificius' Pity
305Epitaph of Seneca
109To any Readers he may have
306ANONYMOUS
110ANONYMOUS
307P. LICINIVS GALLIENVS IMPERATOR
111L. VARIVS
308M. AVRELIVS OLVMPIVS NEMESIANVS
112Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton
309Pan
113C. CILNIVS MAECENAS
310ANONYMOUS
114P. VERGILIVS MARO
311To the Sea
115'Hence, all ye vain Delights'
312Boating Song
116'Unto you a child is born'
313'Margaret'
117Pharmaceutria
314CLAVDIVS
118'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'
315L. CAELIVS LACTANTIVS FIRMIANVS
119Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?
316CATO
120Italia, io te saluto
317REPOSIANVS
121'God made the country but man made the town'
318PENTADIVS
122Exordium
319Woman
123Orpheus and Eurydice
320ANONYMOUS
124The Aeneid
321TIBERIANVS
125Q. HORATIVS FLACCVS
322Gold
126Song Makes Immortal
323'Too Adventurous Wings'
127Spring: An Invitation to Vergil
324God
128Winter
325Peruigilium Veneris
129To Venus
326ANONYMOUS
130'What slender youth...'
327ALCIMIVS
131Amoris Integratio
328A Present from Lesbia
132Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait
329Eloquent Eyes
133The Latter End of Lyce
330D. MAGNVS AVSONIVS
134He Abandons the Lists of Love
331To Tetradius: A Remonstrance
135Rursus bella moues?
332A Letter to Paulinus
136A Bachelor Festival
333To his Wife
137A Retreat for Old Age
334Nemesis
138Welcome home to Pompeius
335One-sided Love
139Eheu fugaces
336The Spartan's Shield
140An Invitation to Maecenas
337In Commendation of his Book
141Pia Testa
338To his Book
142High and Low, Rich and Poor
339Myro's Heifer
143The Strenuous Life
340A Picture of Echo
144The Path of the Just
341The Ideal Mistress
145Pollio
342Narcissus
146Regulus
343Dedication of a Mirror
147Cleopatra
344The Graves of a Household
148Augustus returns in triumph
345An Epitaph for his Father
149Deliverance from Death
346In Memory of his Teacher, Nepotianus
150Bandusia
347Epitaphs of Heroes
151Mens Aequa
348In Tumulo Hominis Felicis
152Pindar
349To his Villa
153The Daughters of Danaus
350The Martyrdom of Cupid
154To Vergil: on the Death of Quintilius
351Valedictory
155Beatus unicis Sabinis
352MODESTINVS
156A Hard Winter
353PSEVDO-AVSONIVS
157Two Poems on the Return of Spring
354For a Statue of Dido
158Horace's Monument
355A Pretty Boy
159ALBIVS TIBVLLVS
356Galla
160Lines Written in Sickness at Corcyra
357AVIENVS
161A Shattered Dream of Love
358ANONYMOUS
162The Blessings of Peace
359ASMENIVS
163A Rural Festival
360THE ASMENIDAE
164In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles
361II. PALLADIVS
165He appeals to Nemesis by the Memory of her dead Sister
362III
166DOMITIVS MARSVS
363IV
167SEXTVS PROPERTIVS
364ANONYMOUS
168His Place in Poetry
365Epithalamium
169The Power of Song
366The Grave of Nymphius
170The first Onset of Love
367Roses and Thorns
171Portrait of the Love God
368SVLPICIVS LVPERCVS SERVASIVS IVNIOR
172To one who despised Love, and is now enslaved
369On Avarice
173To the same: Poets of Epic and Poets of Love
370CLAVDIVS CLAVDIANVS
174Cynthia's Birthday
371A Council of War—and War
175Cynthia's Sickness
372The Marriage of Honorius and Maria
176A Dream about Cynthia
373The Recluse
177Warning to a Rival
374Epistle to Serena
178To Cynthia on her Kindness to his Rival
375Love in a Cottage
179Cynthia is stolen from him
376AVIANVS
180Athens shall cure him of his Love
377The Peacock and the Crane
181Cynthia will one day be but Dust and Ashes
378RVTILIVS CLAVDIVS NAMATIANVS
182Cynthia Dead
379C. SOLLIVS MODESTVS APOLLINARIS SIDONIVS
183Hylas
380A Gallic Baiae
184Cornelia's Plea
381An Invitation
185The Triumphs of Augustus in the East
382Epitaph of Filimatia
186Elegy on the Death of Marcellus
383FLAVIVS FELIX
187The Lover alone knows in what Hour Death shall come to him
384LVXORIVS
188'When I die, Cynthia....'
385The Garden of Eugetus
189LYGDAMVS
386A Rose with a hundred Petals
190From a Sickbed
387A Water Urn with a Figure of Cupid
191SVLPICIA
388His Book's proper Place
192To Phoebus: A Prayer in Sickness
389PHOCAS
193In Sickness: to Cerinthus
390TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS
194ANONYMOUS
391NOTE UPON THE SATURNIAN METRE
195PANEGYRISTAE MESSALLAE
392GLOSSARY OF OLD LATIN
196ANONYMOUS
393Analysis
197CORNELIVS SEVERVS
394Reflection
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