John Wight Duff: Minor Latin Poets
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- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: historia
- Materiaali: Sidottu
- Kustantaja: Loeb Classical Library
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780674994782
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This is the second volume of an anthology of Latin poetry. The 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 BCE, and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE. 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.