Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 2‪)‬

This collection is based on the required reading list of Yale Department of Classics. Originally designed for students, this anthology is meant for everyone eager to know more about the history and literature of this period, interested in poetry, philosophy and rhetoric of Ancient Rome.

Latin literature is a natural successor of Ancient Greek literature. The beginning of Classic Roman literature dates to 240 BC. From that point on, Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Consequently, Latin Literature outlived the Roman Empire and it included European writers who followed the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas, to secular writers like Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton. This collection presents all the major Classic Roman authors, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Horace whose work intrigues and fascinates readers until this day.

Content:

Plautus:

Aulularia

Amphitryon

Terence:

Adelphoe

Ennius:

Annales

Catullus:

Poems and Fragments

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