Classics in Translation Vol. 2 : Latin Literature

by Mackendrick, Paul Lachlan

• ISBN13: 9780299808969
• ISBN10: 0299808963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1952-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic insititutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection's general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.

Table of Contents

ROMAN CULTURE: AN ESSAY	3	(10)
Paul MacKendrick
THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF PLAUTUS	13	(25)
Harry J. Leon
THE WOMAN FROM ANDROS OF TERENCE	38	(22)
R. I. Wilfred Westgate
Rogers V. Scudder
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS ON THE NATURE OF THINGS INVOCATION TO VENUS--LUCRETIUS GIVES REASONS FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO ROMAN INSTITUTIONAL RELIGION--THE CREED OF RELIGION VS. THE CREED OF SCIENCE--THE POET'S THEME--THE TRANQUIL LIFE--THE MOVEMENT OF THE ATOMS--THE SWERVE OF THE ATOMS--ATOMS VARY IN SHAPE--IN PRAISE OF HIS TEACHER EPICURUS: THE MORAL VALUE OF HIS PHILOSOPHY--LUCRETIUS WITH HIS ARGUMENTS TRIES TO BANISH THE FEAR OF DEATH--THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, CONTINUED--LUCRETIUS DISCOURSES ON SEX AND LOVE--IN PRAISE OF EPICURUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN MORAL ENLIGHTENMENT--THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK--THE WORLD IS NOT ETERNAL OR DIVINE--THE LIFE OF PRIMITIVE MAN--THE EVOLUTION OF MAN AND HUMAN INSTITUTIONS--ORIGIN OF BELIEF IN THE GODS--THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS, CONTINUED--THE GREAT PLAGUE AT ATHENS	60	(25)
Alban D. Winspear
SELECTIONS FROM SALLUST	85	(15)
Paul MacKendrick
The Jugurthine War	86	(6)
The Conspiracy of Catiline	92	(7)
To Caesar on the Commonwealth, II	99	(1)
SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES OF CICERO	100	(46)
Norman J. DeWitt
Against Rullus	102	(4)
In Defense of Cluentius	106	(6)
In Defense of Sestius	112	(3)
In Defense of Murena	115	(5)
In Defense of Caelius	120	(6)
In Defense of Milo	126	(8)
Against Antony	134	(6)
Servius Sulpicius Rufus: In Memoriam	140	(6)
SELECTIONS FROM CICERO'S PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS	146	(58)
Paul MacKendrick
Scipio's Dream, from On the Republic	147	(6)
On the Laws	153	(9)
On the Chief End of Man	162	(9)
Tusculan Disputations	171	(5)
On the Nature of the Gods	176	(9)
On Divination	185	(2)
On Old Age	187	(3)
On Friendship	190	(3)
On Duty	193	(11)
SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF CATULLUS	204	(9)
Eric A. Havelock
THE LANGUAGE OF LYRIC Dedication to Cornelius Nepos, Historian of Cisalpine Gaul--Drinking Song--Salute to Sirmio	205	(1)
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE Bid Me to Live--Lesbia's Kisses--Lesbia's Question--When Lesbia Plays--Lesbia's Tears--Lesbia's Rivals--My True Love Hath My Heart--Amantium Irae--Reunion	206	(2)
LOVE AND DEATH World Without End--For Quintilia Dead	208	(1)
THE FLOWER CUT DOWN In Memoriam. An Epistle to Allius in Record of Friendship--One Word Profaned--Woman's Faith--Miser Catulle--The Office of My Heart--The Undying Fire--Bondage--Journey's End--She That I Loved--The Last Word--Swan Song	209	(4)
SELECTIONS FROM THE GEORGICS OF VERGIL	213	(6)
Robert Fitzgerald
Smith Palmer Bovie
From The First Georgic	213	(4)
From The Second Georgic	217	(2)
SELECTIONS FROM THE AENEID OF VERGIL THE STROM. DIDO--DIDO'S PASSION AND DEATH--THE FUNERAL GAMES FOR ANCHISES--THE UNDERWORLD--AENEAS IN ITALY--THE SHIELD OF AENEAS--NISUS AND EUPYALUS--TURNUS IN BATTLE--DUELS: PALLAS, LAUSUS, MEZENTIUS--DRANCES AND TURNUS--CAMILLA--AENEAS KILLS TURNUS IN SINGLE COMBAT	219	(45)
Rolfe Humphries
SELECTIONS FROM THE ODES OF HORACE	264	(9)
The Sargent Prize Translators
Paul Shorey
Goldwin Smith
To Pyrrha	265	(1)
Ignorance of the Future is Bliss	265	(1)
The Pure in Heart	265	(1)
To a Coy Girl	266	(1)
A Hymn to Fortune	266	(1)
The Death of Cleopatra	267	(1)
Simplicity	267	(1)
A Mind Unmoved	267	(1)
Welcome Home	268	(1)
The Golden Mean	268	(1)
A Narrow Escape	268	(1)
The Moving Finger Writes	269	(1)
Regulus	269	(1)
Wealth in Poverty	270	(1)
To a Cask of Wine Made in the Year in which Horace Was Born	271	(1)
To Augustus	271	(1)
Nature and Man	272	(1)
SELECTIONS FROM OVID	273	(7)
Dorrance S. White
From the Metamorphoses	273	(4)
From the Fasti	277	(3)
SELECTIONS FROM LIVY'S HISTORY OF ROME THE PREFACE TO THE HISTORY--THE BIRTH OF ROMULUS AND REMUS AT ALBA LONGA--THE FOUNDING OF A NEW CITY BY ROMULUS AND REMUS--THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PLACE OF REFUGE--THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ROMAN SENATE--THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN--IN THE WAR ENSUING, THE WOMEN PUT AN END TO THE FIGHTING--AN ETRUSCAN BECOMES KING IN ROME--THE REIGN OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS--THE CAPTURE OF GABII BY TREACHERY--THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA AND THE OVERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY--THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS--ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE OF TRIBUNE OF THE PLEBS--INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS LEGALIZED--THE FIRST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES IN ROME--THE CHARACTER OF HANNIBAL--HANNIBAL ADDRESSES HIS ARMY BEFORE CROSSING THE ALPS--THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FREEDOM OF GREECE--CATO'S SPEECH AGAINST REPEALING THE OPPIAN LAW--THE CHARACTER OF MARCUS PORCIUS CATO	280	(22)
Inez Scott Ryberg
THE DEEDS OF THE DEIFIED AUGUSTUS	302	(7)
Charles F. Edson
Carl Schuler
SENECA'S MEDEA	309	(15)
Elizabeth C. Evans
SELECTIONS FROM THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS THE WEREWOLF--THE WIDOW OF EPHESUS--THE LEGACY-HUNTERS OF CRORON--TRIMALCHIO'S BANQUET	324	(11)
Alston H. Chase
SELECTIONS FROM QUINTILIAN'S THE TRAINING OF THE ORATOR PREFACE--ELEMENTARY EDUCATION--IS SCHOOL PREFERABLE TO PRIVATE TUTORING?--BOY NATURE: SOME HINTS TO THE TEACHER--LITERATURE--CAN BOYS STUDY A NUMBER OF SUBJECTS AT ONCE?--THE IDEAL TEACHER--THE TEACHER AS THE PARENT OF THE MIND--PROLOGUE: THE LAMENT OF A HUSBAND AND FATHER--WHAT TO READ--THE GOOD ORATOR MUST ALSO BE A GOOD MAN--THE MORALS OF THE ORATOR	335	(26)
Paul MacKendrick
SELECTED LETTERS OF THE YOUNGER PLINY	361	(8)
John Paul Heironimus
Pliny to Sosius Senecio	361	(1)
Pliny to Avitus	362	(1)
Pliny to Baebius Macer	362	(2)
Pliny to Tacitus	364	(1)
Pliny to Tacitus (continued)	365	(1)
Pliny to the Emperor Trajan	366	(1)
Trajan to Pliny	367	(2)
SELECTIONS FROM TACITUS	369	(46)
Harry J. Leon
The Annals	371	(34)
Germania	405	(10)
SELECTIONS FROM THE SIXTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL	415	(11)
John Paul Heironimus
SELECTIONS FROM THE DEIFIED JULIUS OF SUETONIUS	426
John Paul Heironimus