{"product_id":"the-portable-roman-reader-isbn-9780140150568","title":"The Portable Roman Reader","description":"The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel.\u003cp\u003eThis collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Note: Translators' names appear after each piece)\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Beginnings and the Age of Cicero (240 BC-42 BC)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Note\u003cbr\u003ePlautus: Amphitryon (Sir Robert Allison)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerence: Phormio (Anonymous)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucretius: from On the Nature of Things: Book I; Book III (William Ellery Leonard)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaesar: from The Gallic War: The First Expedition to Britain; The Germans (H.J. Edwards)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCicero: from The Orations: First Oration Against Catiline (Louis E. Lord)\u003cbr\u003efrom Concerning Old Age (William Armistead Falconer)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatullus: from The Poems:\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Miser Catulle (R.C. Trevelyan)\u003cbr\u003eIX. Verani, ominbus e meis amicis (Hugh Macnaghten)\u003cbr\u003eX. Varus me meus (John Hookham Frere)\u003cbr\u003eXXXI. Paene insularum Sirmio (Andrew Lang)\u003cbr\u003eXLI. Iam er egelidos (William A. Aiken)\u003cbr\u003eLI. Ille mi par esse deo videtur (Lord Byron)\u003cbr\u003eLVIII. Caeli, Lesbia nostra (R.C. Trevelyan)\u003cbr\u003eLXI. Collis o Heliconii (John Hookham Frere)\u003cbr\u003eLXX. Nulli se dicit (Sir Philip Sidney)\u003cbr\u003eLXXXV. Odi et amo (Hugh Macnaghten)\u003cbr\u003eCI. Multas per gentes (Andrew Lang)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Augustan Age (42 BC-17 AD)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Note\u003cbr\u003eVirgil: from the Eclogues:\u003cbr\u003eI: The Happy Tityrus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)\u003cbr\u003eI: Pollio (Charles Stuart Calverley)\u003cbr\u003efrom The Aeneid:\u003cbr\u003eBook II (John Conington)\u003cbr\u003eBook III (William Morris)\u003cbr\u003eBook I (Sir Richard Fanshawe)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorace: from the Odes:\u003cbr\u003eI:5: Quis multa Gracilis (John Milton)\u003cbr\u003eI:7: Laudabunt alii (Lord Dunsany)\u003cbr\u003eI:9: Vides ut alta (Charles Stewart Calverley)\u003cbr\u003eI:11: Tu ne quaesieris (Charles Stewart Calverley)\u003cbr\u003eI:22: Integer itae (Samuel Johnson)III:5: Caelo tonantem (Charles Stewart Calverley)\u003cbr\u003eIII:9: Donec gratus eram tibi (Robert Herrick)IV:7: Diffugere nives (A.E. Housman)IV:13: Audivere, Lyce (Charles Stewart Calverley)\u003cbr\u003efrom the Satires:\u003cbr\u003eA Pertinacious Bore and Sycophant (Alexander Murison)\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of Poetry (Alexander Murison)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLivy: from The History of Rome:\u003cbr\u003eThe War with Lars Porsinna (B.O. Foster)\u003cbr\u003eCato on Extravagance (Cyrus Edmonds)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOvid: from the Metamophoses:\u003cbr\u003eBook III (Joseph Addison)\u003cbr\u003efrom the Epistles:\u003cbr\u003eSappho to Phaon (Alexander Pope)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Silver Age (17 AD-130 AD)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Note\u003cbr\u003eSeneca: Medea (Frank Justus Miller)\u003cbr\u003eLucan: from the Pharsalia\u003cbr\u003eThe Crossing of the Rubicon (Sir Edward Ridley)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePetronius: from the Satyricon\u003cbr\u003efrom Trimalchio's Dinner (Harry Thurston Peck)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartial: from the Epigrams\u003cbr\u003eI:32: To Sabidius (Thomas Brown)\u003cbr\u003eII:4: To Ammianus (F.A. Wright)\u003cbr\u003eII:35: Your legs so like the moon (W.T. Webb)\u003cbr\u003eII:84: Thou art a cuckold (Sir Charles Sedley)\u003cbr\u003eIV:12: At night no man do you refuse (F.A. Wright)\u003cbr\u003eIV:69: Setine and Massic at your board abound (J.A. Pott)\u003cbr\u003eV:34: Thou Mother dead (J.A. Pott)\u003cbr\u003eV:43: Thaïs for black (W.T. Webb)\u003cbr\u003eVI:66: In Fabius' will (J.A. Pott)\u003cbr\u003eX:47: The Meanes to Attaine Happy Life (Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)\u003cbr\u003eX:47: The things that make a life to please (Sir Richard Fanshawe)\u003cbr\u003eX:61: Epitaph on Erotion (Leigh Hunt)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTacitus: from the Annals:\u003cbr\u003eThe Government of Rome (John Jackson)\u003cbr\u003efrom Germany:\u003cbr\u003eThe German Character (William Peterson)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuvenal: from the Satires:\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Satyr (John Dryden)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The End (130 AD-524 AD)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Note\u003cbr\u003eApuleius: from The Golden Ass\u003cbr\u003eCupid and Psyche (Walter Pater)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous: The Vigil of Venus (F.L. Lucas)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaint Augustine: from the Confessions:\u003cbr\u003eHow He Robbed a Pear-Tree (William Watts)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoëthius: from The Consolation of Philosophy (H.R. James)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303760711909,"sku":"NP9780140150568","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140150568.jpg?v=1767741014","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-roman-reader-isbn-9780140150568","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}