Minor Latin poets / with an English translation by J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff.

Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description1 online resource.
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Other author/creatorAetna, author.
Other author/creatorAvianus, author.
Other author/creatorCalpurnius Siculus, Titus author.
Other author/creatorFlorus, Lucius Annaeus, author.
Other author/creatorGrattius, Faliscus, author.
Other author/creatorHadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 author.
Other author/creatorLaus Pisonis, author.
Other author/creatorNemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius author.
Other author/creatorPhoenix, author.
Other author/creatorPublilius, Syrus, active 1st century B.C. author.
Other author/creatorReposianus, active 3rd century, author.
Other author/creatorRutilius Namatianus, Claudius, active 5th century, author.
Other author/creatorTiberianus, author.
Other author/creatorDuff, A. M. (Arnold Mackay), 1900-1976 translator.
Other author/creatorDuff, J. Wight (John Wight), 1866-1944, translator.
SeriesLoeb Classical Library ; 284, 434
Loeb classical library ; 284, 434. ^A467228
Contents v. I. Publilius Syrus. Elegies on Maecenas. Grattius. Calpurnius Siculus. Laus Pisonis. Einsiedeln Eclogues. Aetna -- v. II. Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others.
Abstract Works such as those of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished c. 45 BCE, and Rutilius Namatianus, who gave a graphic account of his voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE, represent the wide variety of theme that lends interest to Latin poetry produced during a period of four and a half centuries. This two-volume anthology of Latin poetry 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 edition.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.
LanguageText in Latin with English translation on facing pages.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Minor Latin poets. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1934 9780674993143(v.1) 9780674994782(v.2)
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