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Selected Satires of Lucian

10 best books like Selected Satires of Lucian (Lucian of Samosata): The Seven Against Thebes, Civil War, The Sixteen Satires, Idylls, Women of Trachis, The Odes, Leucippe and Clitophon, The Fall of Troy, Moralia, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)

The Seven Against Thebes
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0486414205
Often called the father of Greek tragedy, Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.) was the earliest and possibly the greatest of the Greek tragic poets. Altogether he may have written as many as 90 plays (including satyr plays as well as tragedies), but only seven have survived.
The Seven Against Thebes (first...
Civil War
AuthorLucan
ISBN0192839497
Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject....
The Sixteen Satires
AuthorJuvenal
ISBN0140447040
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor, and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and...
Idylls
AuthorTheocritus
ISBN0192839845
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western...
Women of Trachis
AuthorSophocles
ISBN0195070097
Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous change: these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tragic vision. But nowhere are they elaborated with more urgency than in Women of Trachis. There are no subtle shifts of Fortune's favors in this tragedy, only stunning and total reversals, a relentless...
The Odes
AuthorPindar
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' —C. M. Bowra

Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece—a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and...
Leucippe and Clitophon
AuthorAchilles Tatius
ISBN0192804278
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment,...
The Fall of Troy
AuthorQuintus Smyrnaeus
ISBN0760768366
From the introduction, and doesn't the idea of the missing pieces make you crazy?!
Homer's "Iliad" begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were...
Moralia
AuthorPlutarch
ISBN1408633515
This book is quite possibly on more of my shelves than any other book. Plutarch was a man of letters of unlimited curiosity; his overall subject, worked out across innumerable essays, dialogues, letters, speeches, and stories, is nothing less than life itself. As such, he provides an invaluable glimpse...
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)
AuthorMatteo Maria Boiardo
ISBN1932559019
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
The Odes of Horace
AuthorHorace
ISBN0374224250
The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated and influential of the poets of Emperor Augustus's reign. These marvelously constructed poems, with their unswerving clarity of vision and extraordinary range of tone and emotion, have deeply affected the poetry of Shakespeare,...
Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs
AuthorAristophanes
ISBN0140441522
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and...
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0226307832
Rhesus by Euripides is about an event told in Book Ten of Homer’s Iliad. It is a short play. It’s interesting but without the dramatic impact of Medea, Orestes or Electra.

The play contains spying, disguises, deception, murder, mistaken identity, manipulation by the gods, horse theft...
The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis
AuthorPetronius
ISBN0140444890
Perhaps the strangest and most strikingly modern work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous...
Epigrams
AuthorMarcus Valerius Martialis
ISBN0375760423
Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic...
7 Greeks
AuthorGuy Davenport
ISBN0811212882
Here is a colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later,...
The Comedies
AuthorTerence
Terence Theatre complete

Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.

His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.

This edition is the collection of...
Lives of the Later Caesars
AuthorScriptores Historiae Augustae
ISBN0140443088
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume...
The Rope and Other Plays
AuthorPlautus
ISBN0140441360
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters...
On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
AuthorLonginus
ISBN0872200809
Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A....
The Nature of the Gods
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN0192825119
'My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partially by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.'
In The Nature of the Gods, Cicero presents a detailed account of the Greek theories of deity, examining the theologies of the Epicureans...
Theophrastus: Characters
AuthorTheophrastus
ISBN0521839807
Ένα έργο εξαιρετικά επίκαιρο παρά το γεγονός ότι η συγγραφή του έλαβε χώρα γύρω στο 317 π.Χ. Ο σκοπός του Θεόφραστου, κατά ρητή αναφορά του ιδίου, είναι να αφήσει...
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