Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry - 2nd Edition

Name: Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of the Augustan principate. Now updated in this second edition, the volume has been re-edited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and bibliography for readers in a new century, ensuring that this much-valued anthology remains useful and relevant to a new generation of students studying ancient literature and western civilization. The volume features an expanded selection of newly translated poetry including:\n\n--fresh Catullus translations, with a greater selection including Poem 64 \n--fresh Sulpicia translations and the five poems of the \""Garland of Sulpicia\""\n\n--six new Propertius poems\n\n--new and revised selections from Tibullus, Ovid and Horace. \nThe second edition reflects changing interests and modes of reading w.