How to Read a Latin Poem
If You Can't Read Latin Yet
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2013
289 pages
978-0-19-163204-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Guide to the Pronunciation of Latin
- Prelude
- 1 Love, and a Genre
- 2 Hate, Mockery, and the Physical World
- 3 Horace: The Sensation of Mediocrity
- 4 Vergil: The Unclassical Classic
- 5 Lucan and Seneca: Poets of Apocalypse
- 6 Science Fiction: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Epilogue
- Guide to Further Reading
- Glossary
- A
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- M
- Q
- S
- T
- Z
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Index of Poems Discussed
