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ISBN: 9780140447040 - Sixteen Satires Sixteen Satires
Juvenal

ISBN10: 9780141915012  ISBN13: 9780141915012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians... More

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ISBN: 9780415187824 - Early Christian Latin Poets Early Christian Latin Poets
White, Carolinne

ISBN10: 9780203184233  ISBN13: 9780203184233
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical... More

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ISBN: 9780199228331 - Roman Mistress Ancient and Modern Representations Roman Mistress Ancient and Modern Representations
MARIA, WYKE

ISBN10: 9780191541407  ISBN13: 9780191541407
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
A highly accessible study of representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic... More

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ISBN: 9781438515571 - Troilus and Criseyde Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer, Geoffrey

ISBN10: 9780141914510  ISBN13: 9780141914510
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning... More

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ISBN: 9780140455571 - Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Sappho

ISBN10: 9780141931258  ISBN13: 9780141931258
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
More or less 150 years after Homers Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at... More

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ISBN: 9780140446906 - Fasti Fasti
Ovid

ISBN10: 9780141913339  ISBN13: 9780141913339
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves... More

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ISBN: 9780140442304 - Romance of Tristan Romance of Tristan
Beroul

ISBN10: 9780141913858  ISBN13: 9780141913858
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall... More

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ISBN: 9780300139181 - War with Hannibal War with Hannibal
Beyer, Brian

ISBN10: 9780300152067  ISBN13: 9780300152067
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This edition of Book III of Eutropiuss Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a students first encounter with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of Roman history that... More

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ISBN: 9780300050936 - Heroides Heroides
Ovid

ISBN10: 9780141913094  ISBN13: 9780141913094
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of... More

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ISBN: 9780140455083 - Satires of Horace and Persius Satires of Horace and Persius
Horace; Persius

ISBN10: 9780141913131  ISBN13: 9780141913131
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's... More