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Minor Latin Poets, Volume II

Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others

Avianus author Florus author Hadrian author Nemesianus author Reposianus author Tiberianus author J Wight Duff translator Arnold M Duff translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:31st Jan '34

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A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.

This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in AD 416. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the work.

ISBN: 9780674994782

Dimensions: 162mm x 108mm x 25mm

Weight: 318g

432 pages