Roman Poetry: From the Republic to the Silver Age

Thebest of classical Latin poetry in a vital English verse translation described by early readers as superb.” Ms. Wender, who is a published creative writer as well as a classicist, has done much with her unflinching translations to restorethe powerwielded by the originalpoems.

She has increased the usefulness and accessibility of her collection by providing a lively introduction to each of the nine poets she presents in translation. When little is known about the poet himself, she places him within a coterie of contemporaries who are better known. The poets and works presented are: Catullus, Songs;Lucretius, Selections from DeRerum Natura;Virgil, Eclogues 2and 4 and selections from the Georgics;Horace, Satire 1, 9(The Bore”) and selected Odes;Propertius, Elegies;Tibullus, Elegy 1, 1; Ovid, Amores and Echo and Narcissus” from Metamorphoses;Martial, Epigrams;and Juvenal, Satire 3 (The City of Rome”).