Fragments of Roman Poetry c. 60 BC-AD 20

by: Hollis, A.S.

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 This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 B.C. to A.D. 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend Calvus just as highly; comparison of the two reveals an extraordinarily close relationship. Horace mentions Varius Rufus in the same breath as Virgil. Adrian Hollis prints fragments of up to thirty poets, with an individual introduction and a translation for each. Almost every genre of ancient poetry is represented, from heroic epic to scurrilous lampoon. Hollis's commentary, fuller and richer than any yet published, contains many new ideas. In some cases (such as Varius Rufus) the fragments illumine the history of this period, which saw the collapse of the Roman Republic and establishment of the Augustan Empire. Taken together, these fragmentary texts enable us better to appreciate surviving great poets such as Catullus and Virgil.

List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
xi
Numbering of Items: Comparative Table xiii
Introduction 1 (10)
Text, Translation, and Commentary
C. Helvius Cinna
11 (38)
C. Licinius Calvus
49 (38)
Egnatius
87 (3)
C. Memmius
90 (3)
Aemilius Macer
93 (25)
M. Furius Bibaculus
118 (28)
Q. Mucius Scaevola
146 (3)
Q. Cornificius
149 (6)
(?Q.) Hortensius Hortalus
155 (3)
Ticida
158 (6)
Volumnius
164 (1)
P. Terentius Varro Atacinus
165 (50)
C. Asinius Pollio
215 (4)
C. Cornelius Gallus
219 (34)
L. Varius Rufus
253 (29)
C. Caesar Octavianus (Imp. Augustus)
282 (5)
C. Valgius Rufus
287 (13)
Domitius Marsus
300 (14)
C. Maecenas
314 (12)
M. Tullius Laurea
326 (4)
Arbonius Silo
330 (2)
Dorcatius
332 (2)
Gracchus
334 (4)
Sextilius Ena
338 (2)
Cornelius Severus
340 (28)
Iulius Montanus
368 (4)
Albinovanus Pedo
372 (10)
Rabirius
382 (7)
Adespota Selecta
389 (31)
Appendix: Named Poets of Whom No Verbatim Quotations Survive 420 (11)
Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources 431 (5)
Index 436

Fragments of Roman Poetry c. 60 BC-AD 20

by: Hollis, A.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780199567836 / 978-0-19-956783-6
• ISBN-03: 0199567832 / 0-19-956783-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009

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