Classics in Translation, Volume II

Latin Literature

Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe, Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780299808990
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Roman thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
· Complete translations of Plautus' The Haunted House, Terence's Woman from Andros, Seneca's Medea, and the Deeds of the Deified Augustus.
· Selections from Vergil's Georgics and Aeneid, the poems of Catullus, Horace's Odes, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti, the Satyricon of Petronius, and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.
· Selections from Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, Cicero's speeches and philosophical works, and Quintilian's The Training of the Orator.
· Selections from histories by Sallust, Livy's History of Rome, Tacitus' Annals and Germania, and letters of Pliny the Younger.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Roman Culture: An Essay - Paul MacKendrick
• The Haunted House of Plautus - translated by Harry J. Leon
• The Woman from Andros of Terence - translated by R. I. Wilfred Westgate and Rogers V. Scudder
• Titus Lucretius Carus: On the Nature of Things - translated by Alban D. Winspear
• Selections from Sallust - translated by Paul MacKendrick
• Selections from the Speeches of Cicero - translated by Norman J. DeWitt
• Selections from Cicero's Philosophical Works - translated by Paul MacKendrick
• Selections from the Poems of Catullus - translated by Eric A. Havelock
• Selections from the Georgics of Vergil - translated by Robert Fitzgerald and Smith Palmer Bovie
• Selections from the Aeneid of Vergil - translated by Rolfe Humphries
• Selections from the Odes of Horace - translated by the Sargent Prize Translators, Paul Shorey, and Goldwin Smith
• Selections from Ovid - translated by Dorrance S. White
• Selections from Livy's History of Rome - translated by Inez Scott Ryberg
• The Deeds of Deified Augustus - translated by Charles F. Edson and Carl Schuler
• Seneca's Medea - translated by Elizabeth C. Evans
• Selections from the Satyricon of Petronius - translated by Alston H. Chase
• Selections from Quintilian's The Training of the Orator - translated by Paul MacKendrick
• Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny - translated by John Paul Heironimus
• Selections from Tacitus - translated by Harry J. Leon
• Selections from The Sixth Satire of Juvenal - translated by John Paul Heironimus
• Selections from The Deified Julius of Suetonius - translated by John Paul Heironimus
• Maps