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
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
Germania
, and letters of Pliny the Younger.