Beginning Latin Poetry Reader 70 Selections from the Great Periods of Roman Verse and Drama

by Betts, Gavin; Franklin, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780071458856
• ISBN10: 0071458859
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780071491525
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-12
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Embrace your Roman muse! As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts. Requiring only a grounding in the basics, Beginning Latin Poetry Reader lets you explore the rich and diverse range of Latin verse, including epics, comedies, satires, lyric poetry, and even graffiti! Inside you'll find seventy selections from authors of the early Republic such as Plautus and Terrance as well as those of the Golden and Silver Ages such as Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal--all supported by helpful footnotes and English translations. This book also includes a clear overview of Latin syntax and the metrics of its verse, a glossary of all Latin words found in the readings, and a time line showing the historical and literary context of each author. Lose yourself in: the sparkling comedies of Plautus the intimate love poetry of Catullus the majestic hexameters of Vergil the elegant lyricism of Horace the refined sensuality of Ovid the compelling satires of Juvenal the bristly epigrams of Martial

Author Biography

Gavin Betts, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and world-renowned Latin scholar.

Daniel Franklin majored in Latin at Eastern Illinois University and is the coauthor, with Gavin Betts, of The Big Gold Book of Latin Verbs.

Table of Contents

List of Essays	viii
List of Marginalia	viii
Preface	xi
Introduction	xiii
A Time Line of Latin Literature	xix
A Map of Italy, Greece, and the Troad	xxii
A Map of Rome in Late Antiquity	xxiv
Forma Urbis Romae	xxv
Abbreviations	xxvi
POETRY SELECTIONS
ENNIUS
The Dream of Ilia	3	(3)
Annales
PLAUTUS
A Quarrel Between Slaves	6	(4)
Mostellaria
TERENCE
An Insolent Slave	10	(3)
Andria
Verse Epitaphs	13	(3)
CATULUS
The New Eroticism	16	(6)
LUCRETIUS
The Inevitability of Death	22	(3)
De rerum natura
True Piety	25	(2)
De rerum natura
CATULLUS
Love and Rejection	27	(5)
Carmina
The Effect of Love	32	(2)
Carmina
Lesbia's Sparrow	34	(3)
Carmina
Dental Hygiene in the Provinces	37	(3)
Carmina
A Social Climber	40	(2)
Carmina
An Invitation to Dinner	42	(2)
Carmina
A Brother's Tears	44	(2)
Carmina
Ariadne on Naxos	46	(3)
Carmina
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Worldly Wisdom	49	(2)
VERGIL
Unrequited Love	51	(3)
Eclogues
Italy	54	(6)
Georgics
Orpheus and Eurydice	60	(6)
Georgics
Of Arms and the Man	66	(2)
Aeneid
The Capture of a Royal Palace	68	(3)
Aeneid
The Shade of Dido	71	(3)
Aeneid
The Emperor Augustus	74	(3)
Aeneid
The Roman Mission	77	(4)
Aeneid
HORACE
Hope Not for Immortality	81	(3)
Odes
The Death of a Friend	84	(3)
Odes
A Quiet Drink	87	(1)
Odes
Seize the Day!	88	(2)
Odes
An Old Love Revived	90	(2)
Odes
Caught by a Bore!	92	(3)
Sermones
The Lessons of Homer	95	(3)
Epistulae
Live How We Can, Yet Die We Must	98	(3)
Odes
The Favor of the Muse	101	(3)
Odes
PROPERTIUS
An Intoxicated Lover	104	(3)
Elegies
Love's Miseries	107	(3)
Elegies
Therefore Is Love Said to Be a Child...	110	(3)
Elegies
The End of a Wild Party	113	(4)
Elegies
TIBULLUS
The Golden Age	117	(3)
Elegies
A Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest...	120	(2)
Elegies
LYGDAMUS
You Are My Heart's Desire	122	(4)
[TIBULLUS] Elegies
OVID
Sophistication+	126	(2)
Ars amatoria
The Immortality of Verse	128	(4)
Amores
Ovid's Last Night in Rome	132	(4)
Tristia
Deucalion and Pyrrha	136	(3)
Metamorphoses
A Storm at Sea	139	(2)
Tristia
Arion and the Dolphin	141	(3)
Fasti
Ovid's Early Life	144	(2)
Tristia
Pyramus and Thisbe	146	(11)
Metamorphoses
MANILIUS
The Folly of Human Desires	157	(7)
Astronomica
PHAEDRUS
The Horse and the Wild Boar	164	(2)
Fabulae
PERSIUS
An Atypical Poet	166	(2)
prologue
SENECA
Is There Life After Death?	168	(5)
Troades
LUCAN
Pompey and Caesar	173	(4)
Bellum civile
Cato at the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon	177	(3)
Bellum civile
VALERIUS FLACCUS
A Pep Talk's	180	(3)
Argonautica
STATIUS
Insomnia	183	(3)
Silvae
SILIUS ITALICUS
Scipio and Syphax	186	(5)
Punica
MARTIAL
A Pleasant Retirement	191	(3)
Epigrammata
Some Odd Characters	194	(2)
Epigrammata
Wisecracks	196	(2)
Epigrammata
The Happy Life	198	(2)
Epigrammata
A Roman's Day	200	(2)
Epigrammata
JUVENAL
The Necessity of Writing Satire	202	(3)
Satires
An Adventurous Woman	205	(4)
Satires
The Emptiness of Military Glory	209	(4)
Satires
The Vigil of Venus	213	(5)
CLAUDIAN
The Happy Peasant	218	(3)
Shorter poems
Grammar	221	(35)
Metrics	256	(11)
Translations	267	(36)
Glossary	303