Minor Latin Poets, Volume II [Loeb Classical Library, 434]

Duff, J. Wight, and Arnold M. Duff, trans

ISBN 10: 0674994787 / ISBN 13: 9780674994782

Published by Harvard University Press, 1998

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear on all edges of text. Dust jacket slightly worn on outer edges, corners, along spine and ends of spine. Otherwise VG. Pages 423 to 838 419 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minor Latin Poets, Volume II [Loeb Classical Library, 434]
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674994787
• ISBN 13: 9780674994782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.

This 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 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in AD 416. 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.

About the Author

ADRIAN NIKOLAS PHOENIX has had stories published in several magazines and anthologies. She currently lives in Oregon (with three cats, of course), but travels to New Orleans, the city of her heart, whenever possible.