Lucan’s epic poem, Civil War, portrays the stark, dark horror of the years 49 through 48 BCE, the grim reality of Romans fighting Romans, of Julius Caesar vs. Pompey the . . . [more]...

This volume, intended for third- and fourth-year college and advanced high-school use, presents a selection of annotated passages in Latin from six plays by Terence: Andria, Heauton, Phormio, Hecyra, Eunuchus, . . . [more]...

The comic playscripts by Plautus—the earliest Latin texts we have—made it through the ancient world to reach ours because the moves and verbal jousting found in them have always made . . . [more]...

The trademark exuberance of Lucilius, gentleness of Horace, abrasiveness of Persius, and vehemence of Juvenal are the diverse satiric styles on display in this Reader. Witnesses to the spectacular growth . . . [more]...

Designed for college and university-level Latin courses, this reader features a range of Latin prose and poetic writings from the second century BCE through the second century CE that represent . . . [more]...

Introduction, selected Latin text from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita totaling 566 lines: From the preface Praef. 6-11 (27 lines); Founding of Rome 1.6.4-7.3 (18 lines); Etruscan Attack on Rome 2.10.1-14, . . . [more]...

This Latin reader offers short selections from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. The original Latin text, written in the second century CE, follows the life of a man named Lucius . . . [more]...

Representative selections (total of 598 lines) from the work of the Tacitus, chosen to represent the entire existing corpus of Tacitus: Annales, Historiae, Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus. The reading selections . . . [more]...

This reader presents representative selections (total of 588 lines) from the work of the Julius Caesar's Gallic War (1-1.4, 2-3.1, 1.7, 1.11, 1.12.3-7, 1.34-36, 2.19.6-2.21, 5.27, 6.13-14, 6.16, 6.21, 6.24) . . . [more]...

This Latin reader offers 14 selections from the works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, philosopher, and man of letters, who lived (106-43 BCE) during the final generations of the . . . [more]...