Fragments of Roman Poetry c.60 BC-AD 20

by Hollis, Adrian S.

• ISBN13: 9780198146988
• ISBN10: 0198146981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend Calvus just as highly; comparison of the two reveals an extraordinarily close relationship. Horace mentions Varius Rufus in the same breath as Virgil. Adrian Hollis prints fragments of up to thirty poets, with an individual introduction and a translation for each. Almost every genre of ancient poetry is represented, from heroic epic to scurrilous lampoon. Hollis's commentary, fuller and richer than any yet published, contains many new ideas. In some cases (such as Varius Rufus) the fragments illumine the history of this period, which saw the collapse of the Roman Republic and establishment of the Augustan Empire. Taken together, these fragmentary texts enable us better to appreciate surviving great poets such as Catullus and Virgil.

Author Biography

Adrian Hollis is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Keble College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Poets in Alphabetical Order	p. xi
Numbering of Items: Comparative Table	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Text, Translation, and Commentary
C. Helvius Cinna	p. 11
C. Licinius Calvus	p. 49
Egnatius	p. 87
C. Memmius	p. 90
Aemilius Macer	p. 93
M. Furius Bibaculus	p. 118
Q. Mucius Scaevola	p. 146
Q. Cornificius	p. 149
(?Q.) Hortensius Hortalus	p. 155
Ticida	p. 158
Volumnius	p. 164
P. Terentius Varro Atacinus	p. 165
C. Asinius Pollio	p. 215
C. Cornelius Gallus	p. 219
L. Varius Rufus	p. 253
C. Caesar Octavianus (Imp. Augustus)	p. 282
C. Valgius Rufus	p. 287
Domitius Marsus	p. 300
C. Maecenas	p. 314
M. Tullius Laurea	p. 326
Arbonius Silo	p. 330
Dorcatius	p. 332
Gracchus	p. 334
Sextilius Ena	p. 338
Cornelius Severus	p. 340
Iulius Montanus	p. 368
Albinovanus Pedo	p. 372
Rabirius	p. 382
Adespota Selecta	p. 389
Named Poets of Whom No Verbatim Quotations Survive	p. 420
Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources	p. 431
Index	p. 436
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