This is a classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the bes
t passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others. This classic antholo
gy traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of
Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius,
to the later writings of St Augustine. The selections cover comedy and epic, his
tory and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and each passage is prefaced by an i
ntroduction to the author and his influence.
