A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in AD 416. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the work.
| ISBN: | 9780674994782 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1989 |
| Author: | Florus, Hadrian, Nemesianus, Reposianus, Tiberianus, Avianus, Rutilius Namatianus |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
| Genres: |
Poetry anthologies (various poets) |