Minor Latin Poets, Volume I: Publilius Syrus. Elegies on Maecenas. Grattius. Calpurnius Siculus. Laus Pisonis. Einsiedeln Eclogues. Aetna
ISBN: 9780674993143
Platform/Publisher: Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press
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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.


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