The Roman way / Edith Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Local Subjects:

Civilization.

Latin literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2017.

Summary:

"In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential poet of love; Horace, who chronicled a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics: Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. Hamilton concludes her work by contrasting the high-mindedness of Stoicism with the collapse of values as witnessed by the historian Tacitus and the satirist Juvenal."--Back cover.

Contents:

Comedy's mirror

Ancient Rome reflected in Plautus and Terence

The comic spirit in Plautus and Terence

Cicero's Rome : The Republic

Cicero himself

Caesar and Cicero

Catullus

Horace

the Rome of Augustus as Horace saw it

The Roman way

Enter the romantic Roman : Virgil, Livy, Seneca

Juvenal's Rome and the Stoics

The end of antiquity.

Notes:

"Published as a Norton paperback 1964, 1984; reissued 1993, 2017"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).

ISBN:

9780393354454

0393354458

OCLC:

995166770