The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis
10 best books like The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis (Petronius): The Sixteen Satires, The Fall of Troy, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, Sixes and Sevens - The Complete Works of O. Henry - Vol. VII, The Poems, Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana, Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy, Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: Julius/Augustus/Tiberius/Gaius Caligula
| Author | Juvenal |
| ISBN | 0140447040 |
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...
| Author | Quintus Smyrnaeus |
| ISBN | 0760768366 |
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...
| Author | Horace |
| ISBN | 0674992148 |
In the two books of "Satires" Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of "Epistles" are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the "Ars Poetica." The "Epodes" in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace...
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 1443781800 |
ENGLISH: In this collection of 25 stories by O.Henry, I liked three of them specially:
"Ulysses and the dogman" about a dog-walker who meets an old friend and says once too many "make it two."
"The duplicity of Hargraves" about a very special actor and an old southern major.
"The...
| Author | Propertius |
| ISBN | 0192835734 |
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...
| Author | Virgil |
| ISBN | 0674995864 |
Virgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life....
| Author | Boethius |
| ISBN | 0674990838 |
Boethius (Boetius)--Anicius Manlius Severinus--Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. 480-524 CE), was son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, after whose death he was looked after by several men, especially Memmius Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter, Rusticiana, by whom he had two sons. All...
| Author | Suetonius |
| ISBN | 0674995708 |
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his "Lives of the Caesars."...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0674992369 |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0674990498 |
In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical...
| Author | Marcus Aurelius |
| ISBN | 0674990641 |
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 CE), philosopher-emperor, wrote the Meditations (his title was The matters addressed to himself) in periods of solitude during military campaigns. His ethical, religious, and existential reflections have endured as an expression of Stoicism, a text for students of that...
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0674991451 |
I find it near to impossible to rate a work of antiquity as I might try to rank a contemporary work. How does one choose subtraction over addition in ranking an artifact of historical interest? The Discourses of Epictetus possess such a special status and have greater merit at the start than contemporary...
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.
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On the Nature of the Gods. Academics
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0674992962 |
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his...
| Author | Menander |
| ISBN | 0192839837 |
The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors....
