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The Oxford Book of Latin Verse - From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Fifth Century AD - cover

The Oxford Book of Latin Verse - From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Fifth Century AD

Various Authors

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Oxford Book of Latin Verse is chronological collection of Latin poems and verses edited by British classical scholar H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Contents:
NVMA POMPILIVS
Fragments of the Saliar Hymns
THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD
Against Plague upon the Harvest
ANONYMOUS
Charms
An Ancient Lullaby
Epitaphs of the Scipios
L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
Fragments of the Odyssey
Dramatic Fragments
CN. NAEVIVS
Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum
Dramatic Fragments
His Own Epitaph
T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS
His Own Epitaph
MARCIVS VATES
Precepts
Vaticinium
Q. ENNIVS
The Vision of Ilia
Romulus and Remus
The Speech of Pyrrhus
Character of a Friend of Servilius
M. Cornelius Cethegus
Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
Toga Cedit Armis
Lesser Fragments of the Annals
Alcmaeon
Andromache
Cassandra
Telamon
Telamon
Molestum Otium
Medeae Nutrix
From the Iphigenia
Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
The Same
Scipio to Ennius
His own Epitaph
M. PACVVIVS
Fortune
The Greeks set sail from Troy
Genitabile Caelum
Speech
Womanish Tears
His Own Epitaph
L. ACCIVS
Tarquin's Dream
The Argo seen by a Shepherd who has never seen a Ship
Shorter Fragments
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of Claudia
POMPILIVS
His Poetical Lineage
VALERIVS AEDITVVS
The Lamp of Love
Q. LVTATIVS CATVLVS
Lost: A Heart
The Rising Sun of Roscius
PORCIVS LICINVS
Ignis Homo Est
Terence corrupted by his Patrons
LAEVIVS
From the Erotopaegnia
M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS
The Garden of Valerius Cato
The Reward of the Scholar
ORACVLVM
M. TVLLIVS CICERO
De Consulatu Suo
Marius
From the Odyssey
From Sophocles
From Euripides
C. HELVIVS CINNA
An Astronomical Poem written upon Mallow Leaves
M. TVLLIVS LAVREA
Magic Waters in the Garden of Cicero's Villa
Q. TVLLIVS CICERO
Astronomical Fragment
C. IVLIVS CAESAR
Terence
C. LICINIVS MACER CALVVS
Fragments of Epithalamia
The Death of Quintilia
T. LVCRETIVS CARVS
Exordium
The Rule of Reason
Magna Mater
Epicurus and the Fear of Death
The Powers of Hell
The World's Conquerors
Primitive Man
Origin of Belief in God
C. VALERIVS CATVLLVS
A Hymn to Diana
Hymen, O Hymenaee
Attis
Iunia weds with Manlius…
Available since: 04/08/2022.
Print length: 705 pages.

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