Roman Books


Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.00 I confess that reading Ovid's Metamorphoses has left me a changed man. His focus on...	Selected Works (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.50 First off, yes, I AM a kid, and yes, I have fully read and understood the genius of Marcus...	On the Good Life (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.96 One thing to note about this book is that it is a collection of selected chapters from Cicero's...	Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $1.88 I love this book! Originally a textbook for a Mythology class, I have kept it and read it...	Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.88 Livy, a contemporary of the Emperor Augustus, devoted his adult life to the writing of his...



The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.92 Ovid was banished into exile for writing "Art of Love", which is included in this...	Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.22 Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E.,...	Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration Best Price: $25.20 I used this text alongside of Cerutti's Pro Archia (2nd ed.), and I found Frerich's edition of...	Horace : Epodes and Odes (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture , Vol 10, Latin language edition) Best Price: $19.96 Garrison's layout of the text is fairly well done so that the text is easily able to be read. ...	Literature: The British Tradition Best Price: $44.99



The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius Best Price: $8.01 This is easily my favorite Classic work of literature. Unlike many of the other classics, such...	The Classical Roman Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Rome Best Price: $18.00 Western civilization is in many ways an outgrowth of the Roman Empire. The Classical Roman...	Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb Classical Library No. 403) Best Price: $11.38 This book is very simple to understand. I used it for a class and found it helpful. The index is...	The Satyricon (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.34 The Satryicon of Petronius, while not the first classical 'novel' I've read, is certainly a bit...	The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $6.68 THANK YOU, IT WAS THE RIGHT BOOK THAT I NEEDED FOR CLASS, CHEAPER THAN B&N AND CAME ON TIME.

Virgil, I, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6, Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $16.00 This new edition fulfils a longstanding need. The text is rightly updated, and the translation...	Lucretius : Selections from De Rerum Natura Best Price: $36.88 If you want a book which will give you a decent introduction into the work of Lucretius (in the...	Latin Literature: A History Best Price: $23.40 I agree with a previous reviewer that there are some editorial problems with this English...	Cicero: De re Publica (On the Republic) , De Legibus (On the Laws) (Loeb Classical Library No. 213) Best Price: $22.85 Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE ), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom...	Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Best Price: $19.20 The sadly ignored second half of the Aeneid does not deserve its consignment to the dust-bin. I...

The Portable Roman Reader (Viking Portable Library) Best Price: $10.00 I'm a freshman in high-school and am very interested in Classical literature and history. This...	Amor and Psyche (Mythos Books) Best Price: $7.00 Discovering the psychology in mythology is an interesting quest. Neumann has written quite a...	The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.22 Interesting book! Three public figures and Cicero himself, gather in Cotta's villa around 76...	The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation By Rolfe Humphries (Scribner/Macmillan Bk) Best Price: $58.99 This epic is definitely a fun story. This verse translation was very accessible. It was easy to...	Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 1-5 Best Price: $26.95 I just wanted to let the interested (particularly the beginning or intermediate student of...

Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta Oratio Best Price: $20.90 I used this as one of my main texts in my first graduate Latin course, and it fit the bill...	Ovid : Metamorphoses Books 9-15 (Ovid, Volume 4 - Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $19.20 It's a hardcover book I purchased for the Orpheus and Eurydice myth (for research.) It includes...	Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.48 While I'm noticing many people here commenting on how great this translation is, I'm going to...	Defence Speeches (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.00 Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world. He dominated the Roman courts,...	Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library #42) Best Price: $17.50 The left page has the original in Latin and the right has an English translation. The set up of...

The Aeneid Best Price: $18.69 Since I first read Virgil some sixty years ago, a young Latin student in a New England prep...	Seneca, VIII, Tragedies I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra (Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $20.00 One of Rome's greatest philosophers was also one of Rome's greatest poets and dramatists. ...	Bakkhai (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Best Price: $5.95 Euripides' "Bakkhai" is an extraordinary play, and functions on many fascinating...	The Orator's Education, I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $19.20 Russell's translation of Quintilian's Institution Oratoria (published in 2001) replaces Butler's...	The Aeneid (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $8.00 I enjoyed the read but it did not come in cloth as I had ordered, it was Hardcover.

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (Loeb Classical Library No. 181) Best Price: $17.95 The first thing that the potential buyer should know is although De Rerum Natura is a poem, this...	Civil War (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.72 An underrated work of the Silver Age. There are some excellent epsiodes that could stand on...	Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (Loeb Classical Library No. 232) Best Price: $19.20 I read this book as a part of a review of Roman Literature. I have to say, of almost all I...	The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years Best Price: $89.67 This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the...	Collected Ancient Greek Novels Best Price: $36.19 This 800 page book contains all the extant Greek novels, or romances, that have made it to us...

Dialogues and Letters (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.30 If Seneca was not the greatest philosopher of the Silver Age, then he was the most reasonable...	Roman Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Best Price: $7.37 Many here in the US know Pier Paolo Pasolini as a filmmaker, and many know him solely for his...	Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), I: Books 1-6 (Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $19.12 This is a wonderful book. However, the presentation does not alert reader to the fact that this...	The Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.23 This collection contains all of Catullus?s extant work. Ranging from the tender, moving, and...	Roman Classics (Cliffs Notes) Best Price: $6.00 The poets, playwrights, philosophers, and kings of ancient Rome left a legacy of literature that...

Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs (Roman Literature and its Contexts) Best Price: $21.99 Out of all the books I've read for my Roman seminar this semester, I strongly feel that this is...	Catilina; Iugurtha; Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta; Appendix Sallustiana (Oxford Classical Texts) (Oxford Classical Texts) Best Price: $58.07 This first new edition of Sallust in over thirty years is based on a fresh study and collation...	The Aeneid Best Price: $14.45 Roman society was enamoured of Greek culture -- many of the best 'Roman' things were Greek; the...	Florus: Epitome of Roman History (Loeb Classical Library No. 231) Best Price: $22.86 Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome in Hadrian's time. He wrote, in...	Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II Best Price: $10.00 This book contains 770 lines from Ars Amatoria, Books I and II, a full introduction on Ovid's...

Sallust's Bellum Catilinae Best Price: $15.95 Sallust's Bellum Catilinae contains the Latin text of Sallust's work on the conspiracy of...	Martial: Epigrams, Volume III, Books 11-14. (Loeb Classical Library No. 480) Best Price: $23.99 Everything said in my review of the first 6 books in Loeb's Martial I No 94) is true with...	Latin Selections / Florilegium Latinum: A Dual-Language Book Best Price: $7.72 The book aims to reinforce readers' ability in Latin classics with selections of varied ease or...	Heroides (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.57 Publius Ovidius Naso was born in 43 B.C. and died in 18 A.D. Emperor Augustus banished him -...	Treasury of Roman Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Latin and English Best Price: $6.97

Cicero: In Catilinam 1-4. Pro Murena. Pro Sulla. Pro Flacco: B. Orations (Loeb Classical Library No. 324) Best Price: $22.87 This is what a cicero's fan expect of an opus of him...great work by harvard university press...

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