The Satyricon (Pocket)
avPetronius, P. G. Walsh, Petronius
ISBN: 9780199539215 - UTGIVEN: 200905'The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre, and recounts the sleazy progr[...]
The Consolation of Philosophy (Pocket)
avBoethius, P. G. Walsh, Boethius
ISBN: 9780199540549 - UTGIVEN: 200810Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he console[...]
The Golden Ass (Pocket)
avApuleius, P. G. Walsh, Apuleius
ISBN: 9780199540556 - UTGIVEN: 200806The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of tr[...]
On Obligations (Pocket)
avMarcus Tullius Cicero, P. G. Walsh, Marcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN: 9780199540716 - UTGIVEN: 200807On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public life, and the right and wrong ways of attaining[...]
The Roman Novel (Häftad)
avP. G. Walsh
ISBN: 9781853994500 - UTGIVEN: 199801"The Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" (or "The Golden Ass") of Apuleius are the only novels written at Rome before AD 200 to have survived. The genre is the comic romance, the literature of relaxation in the ancient world. This study defines the genre and sets it in the context of oth[...]
Thirty Poems from Carmina Burana (Pocket)
avP. G. (EDT) Walsh
ISBN: 9780704905252 - UTGIVEN: 1993-01Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from "Carmina Burana."The" Carmina Burana" is a collection of poems, songs and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Often described as the work of wan[...]
