Yale Classics - Roman Classical Literature

e-artnow presents to you the greatest works of Roman classical literature. The selection of books is based on Yale Department of Classics required reading list. Originally designed for students, this exceptional collection will benefit greatly everyone curious about the history, language, everyday life and culture of ancient Rome. This collection is a compound of ancient Roman wisdom, presenting all the major works of the classical era of Latin literature. By studying the art, history, and social dilemmas of the ancient civilizations person obtains the ability to look at the bigger picture of the present day, the social and political power struggle and ruptures, as well as other major problems of our contemporary society with a dapper understanding.

Content:

Plautus:

Aulularia

Amphitryon

Terence:

Adelphoe

Ennius:

Annales

Catullus:

Poems

Lucretius:

On the Nature of Things

Julius Caesar:

The Civil War

Sallust:

History of Catiline's Conspiracy

Cicero:

De Oratore

Brutus

Horace:

The Odes

The Epodes

The Satires

The Epistles

The Art of Poetry

Virgil:

The Aeneid

The Georgics

Tibullus:

Elegies

Propertius:

Elegies

Cornelius Nepos:

Lives of Eminent Commanders

Ovid:

The Metamorphoses

Augustus:

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Moral Letters to Lucilius

Lucan:

On the Civil War

Persius:

Satires

Petronius:

Satyricon

Martial:

Epigrams

Pliny the Younger:

Letters

Tacitus:

The Annals

Quintilian:

Institutio Oratoria

Juvenal:

Satires

Suetonius:

The Twelve Caesars

Apuleius:

The Metamorphoses

Ammianus Marcellinus:

The Roman History

Saint Augustine of Hippo:

The Confessions

Claudian:

Against Eutropius

Boethius:

The Consolation of Philosophy

Plutarch:

The Rise and Fall of Roman Supremacy:

Romulus

Poplicola

Camillus

Marcus Cato

Lucullus

Fabius

Crassus

Coriolanus

Cato the Younger

Cicero