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An analysis of Suetonius' account of the emperor Domitian. The book provides a detailed commentary on matters of historical importance in the text, together with a discussion of Suetonius' life. A comparison is offered between Suetonius' account and Dio's version. Latin sources are utilized.

A title in the Bristol Classical Press Latin texts series, in Latin with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Titus Livius lived from 59 BC to AD 17 and was a native of the northern Italian town of Patavium. It is generally agreed that he settled in Rome at about the age of 30, and spent the last forty years of his life in the composition of his great history. In writing the history of Rome, Livy sought to emphasize the traits in the national character that had made Rome great, and to impress upon his readers that Rome had developed into a great empire under their guidance and...

In "Cicero and Rome," David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for
examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the
often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla
(82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the massacres of Mark Antony and the
Second Triumvirate (43 BC). Evidence is taken largely from the speeches
and the orator's surviving letters - especially those to his close
friend Atticus.

First
published by Macmillian in 1964, this volume is designed to introduce students to a wider range of Latin
poetry than they would encounter in a simple author prescription. The first
century BC is represented by Lucretius and Catullus, the Augustan era by
Virgil, Horace and Ovid, and the Silver age by Juvenal and Martial. Passages
are chosen for their own intrinsic interest - Ovid on Romulus and Remus,
Juvenal on the dangers of Rome at night, the sheild of Aeneas from Virgil
Aeneid VIII; they cover a wide variety of genres and styles - both
Satires and...

Modern students' lack of formal training in the grammar even of their own language leads to an impatience with the jargon and rules of syntax in their study of the ancient inflected languages. This comparative approach to Greek and Latin (first published in 1934) serves to intruduce students to the syntax of both languages side by side. It has three main thrusts: the first critical - to explain usages and the labels and theories attached to them; the second historical - to explain the process by which the languages developed and changed; the third psychological - how did the working of...

In 1638, the Jesuit, poet, preacher, and historian Johannes Bisselius (1601-1682) published the first volume of his seasonal poem Deliciae Veris, "Pleasures of Spring." The subtly composed, stylistically unique cycle is presented here for the first time in a modern edition with a German translation and insightful commentary, including an introduction to each poem.

This companion to the Penguin translation by S.A. Handford of Sallust's account of the conspiracy of Catiline provides a useful introduction, notes on details of the translated text, a select bibliography, glossary, and list of ancient authors referred to in the book.