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10 best books like The Odes of Horace (Horace): Civil War, The Sixteen Satires, Idylls, The Fall of Troy, Greek Lyrics, All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, The Student's Catullus, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I, The Poems, Poets in a Landscape

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...
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...
Greek Lyrics
AuthorRichmond Lattimore
ISBN0226469441
"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling...
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
AuthorChristopher Logue
ISBN0374529299
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher...
The Student's Catullus
AuthorCatullus
ISBN0806136359
Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has in our time become a standard author in the college Latin curriculum, ranking with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.


In this third edition, thoroughly revised, Daniel H. Garrison...
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I
AuthorMaurice Balme
ISBN0195149564
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete...
The Poems
AuthorPropertius
ISBN0192835734


Toujours dans la veine des poètes latins, après un Catulle tout à la fois impétueux et tendre, après un Tibulle irénique et volage, voici Properce, passionnément fidèle et attaché à sa Cynthie, et terriblement voluptueux. C'est sans doute de ces trois auteurs le plus vivant, le...
Poets in a Landscape
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN1853753017
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
On Ends (De finibus bonorum et malorum)
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN0674990447
De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil") is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. It consists of five books, in which Cicero explains the philosophical views of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Platonism of Antiochus of Ascalon....
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...
The Eclogues
AuthorVirgil
Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection...
Metamorphoses: Volume I, Books I-VIII
AuthorOvid
ISBN0674990463
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

Book...
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin
AuthorPaul T. Comeau
ISBN0060956429
WHEELOCK'S LATIN: AUDIO FILES When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elementary...
Wheelock's Latin
AuthorFrederic M. Wheelock
ISBN0060956410
This review is for Peter.

This is both a review and a very short guide for those interested in jumping off the Latin cliff without a teacher. This is my first review on Goodreads, so please be gentle.

First off, Wheelock is THE text for learning Latin. I have never come across a text that...
Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus
AuthorPhilip Matyszak
ISBN0500051216
The Roman Republic was one of the most civilized societies in the ancient world, ruled by elected officials whose power was checked by a constitution so well crafted that it inspired the founding fathers of the United States of America. Here Philip Matyszak describes fifty-seven of the foremost Romans...
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