Gavin Bettswas Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Monash Univesity,Victoria, Australia. He is now retired and devotes himself to writing. McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

• IntroductionA Time Line of Latin LiteratureA Map of Italy, Greece, and the TroadA Map of Rome in Late AntiquityForma Urbis RomaeAbbreviationsPOETRY SELECTIONSENNIUS The Dream of IliaPLAUTUS A Quarrel Between SlavesTERENCE An Insolent Slave—Verse EpitaphsCATULUS The New EroticismLUCRETIUS The Inevitability of DeathTrue PietyCATULLUS Love and RejectionThe Effect of LoveLesbia's SparrowDental Hygiene in the ProvincesA Social ClimberAn Invitation to DinnerA Brother's TearsAriadne on NaxosPUBLILIUS SYRUS Worldly WisdomVERGIL Unrequited LoveItalyOrpheus and EurydiceOf Arms and the ManThe Capture of a Royal PalaceThe Shade of DidoThe Emperor AugustusThe Roman MissionHORACE Hope Not for ImmortalityThe Death of a FriendA Quiet DrinkSeize the Day!An Old Love RevivedCaught by a Bore!The Lessons of HomerLive How We Can, Yet Die We MustThe Favor of the MusePROPERTIUS An Intoxicated LoverLove's MiseriesTherefore Is Love Said to Be a Child ...The End of a Wild PartyTIBULLUS The Golden AgeA Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest ...LYGDAMUS You Are My Heart's DesireOVID Sophistication Ars amātōria 3.113–128The Immortality of VerseOvid's Last Night in RomeDeucalion and PyrrhaA Storm at SeaArion and the DolphinOvid's Early LifePyramus and ThisbeMANILIUS The Folly of Human DesiresPHAEDRUS The Horse and the Wild BoarPERSIUS An Atypical PoetSENECA Is There Life After Death?LUCAN Pompey and CaesarCato at the Oracle of Jupiter AmmonVALERIUS FLACCUS A Pep TalkSTATIUS InsomniaSILIUS ITALICUS Scipio and SyphaxMARTIAL A Pleasant RetirementSome Odd CharactersWisecracksThe Happy LifeA Roman's DayJUVENAL The Necessity of Writing SatireAn Adventurous WomanThe Emptiness of Military Glory—The Vigil of VenusCLAUDIAN The Happy PeasantGrammarMetricsTranslationsGlossary

Gavin Bettswas Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Monash Univesity,Victoria, Australia. He is now retired and devotes himself to writing. McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

• IntroductionA Time Line of Latin LiteratureA Map of Italy, Greece, and the TroadA Map of Rome in Late AntiquityForma Urbis RomaeAbbreviationsPOETRY SELECTIONSENNIUS The Dream of IliaPLAUTUS A Quarrel Between SlavesTERENCE An Insolent Slave—Verse EpitaphsCATULUS The New EroticismLUCRETIUS The Inevitability of DeathTrue PietyCATULLUS Love and RejectionThe Effect of LoveLesbia's SparrowDental Hygiene in the ProvincesA Social ClimberAn Invitation to DinnerA Brother's TearsAriadne on NaxosPUBLILIUS SYRUS Worldly WisdomVERGIL Unrequited LoveItalyOrpheus and EurydiceOf Arms and the ManThe Capture of a Royal PalaceThe Shade of DidoThe Emperor AugustusThe Roman MissionHORACE Hope Not for ImmortalityThe Death of a FriendA Quiet DrinkSeize the Day!An Old Love RevivedCaught by a Bore!The Lessons of HomerLive How We Can, Yet Die We MustThe Favor of the MusePROPERTIUS An Intoxicated LoverLove's MiseriesTherefore Is Love Said to Be a Child ...The End of a Wild PartyTIBULLUS The Golden AgeA Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest ...LYGDAMUS You Are My Heart's DesireOVID Sophistication Ars amātōria 3.113–128The Immortality of VerseOvid's Last Night in RomeDeucalion and PyrrhaA Storm at SeaArion and the DolphinOvid's Early LifePyramus and ThisbeMANILIUS The Folly of Human DesiresPHAEDRUS The Horse and the Wild BoarPERSIUS An Atypical PoetSENECA Is There Life After Death?LUCAN Pompey and CaesarCato at the Oracle of Jupiter AmmonVALERIUS FLACCUS A Pep TalkSTATIUS InsomniaSILIUS ITALICUS Scipio and SyphaxMARTIAL A Pleasant RetirementSome Odd CharactersWisecracksThe Happy LifeA Roman's DayJUVENAL The Necessity of Writing SatireAn Adventurous WomanThe Emptiness of Military Glory—The Vigil of VenusCLAUDIAN The Happy PeasantGrammarMetricsTranslationsGlossary

Gavin Bettswas Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Monash Univesity,Victoria, Australia. He is now retired and devotes himself to writing. McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

• IntroductionA Time Line of Latin LiteratureA Map of Italy, Greece, and the TroadA Map of Rome in Late AntiquityForma Urbis RomaeAbbreviationsPOETRY SELECTIONSENNIUS The Dream of IliaPLAUTUS A Quarrel Between SlavesTERENCE An Insolent Slave—Verse EpitaphsCATULUS The New EroticismLUCRETIUS The Inevitability of DeathTrue PietyCATULLUS Love and RejectionThe Effect of LoveLesbia's SparrowDental Hygiene in the ProvincesA Social ClimberAn Invitation to DinnerA Brother's TearsAriadne on NaxosPUBLILIUS SYRUS Worldly WisdomVERGIL Unrequited LoveItalyOrpheus and EurydiceOf Arms and the ManThe Capture of a Royal PalaceThe Shade of DidoThe Emperor AugustusThe Roman MissionHORACE Hope Not for ImmortalityThe Death of a FriendA Quiet DrinkSeize the Day!An Old Love RevivedCaught by a Bore!The Lessons of HomerLive How We Can, Yet Die We MustThe Favor of the MusePROPERTIUS An Intoxicated LoverLove's MiseriesTherefore Is Love Said to Be a Child ...The End of a Wild PartyTIBULLUS The Golden AgeA Face That's Best by Its Own Beauty Blest ...LYGDAMUS You Are My Heart's DesireOVID Sophistication Ars amātōria 3.113–128The Immortality of VerseOvid's Last Night in RomeDeucalion and PyrrhaA Storm at SeaArion and the DolphinOvid's Early LifePyramus and ThisbeMANILIUS The Folly of Human DesiresPHAEDRUS The Horse and the Wild BoarPERSIUS An Atypical PoetSENECA Is There Life After Death?LUCAN Pompey and CaesarCato at the Oracle of Jupiter AmmonVALERIUS FLACCUS A Pep TalkSTATIUS InsomniaSILIUS ITALICUS Scipio and SyphaxMARTIAL A Pleasant RetirementSome Odd CharactersWisecracksThe Happy LifeA Roman's DayJUVENAL The Necessity of Writing SatireAn Adventurous WomanThe Emptiness of Military Glory—The Vigil of VenusCLAUDIAN The Happy PeasantGrammarMetricsTranslationsGlossary