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Title: Roman Poets of the Early Empire (Penguin Classics) by A.J. Boyle, J.P. Sullivan ISBN: 0-14-044544-7 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95

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Summary: An enjoyable anthology
Comment: "Roman Poets of the Early Empire" is a collection of the poetry of the first and early second centuries AD in Rome; thankfully, it puts the focus on the major poets of the time, thus making it possible to print significant selections of each man's work. These "selections," by the way, are for the most part not excerpts from the middle of such and such poem; usually an entire book of a poet's work is translated complete. The contents of this volume are as follows:

Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), Book I of the Tristia.

Calpurnius Siculus (c. 35-c. 60), the Eclogues (complete).

Persius (34-62), Satires I, V, and VI.

Seneca (1 BC-AD 65), the Trojan Women (a play).

Lucan (39-65), Book V of the Pharsalia.

Martial (40-104), various epigrams (about 40).

Statius (45-96), Book X of the Thebaid and five poems from the Silvae.

Valerius Flaccus (d. 93/95), Book VII of the Argonautica.

Silius Italicus (25-100), selections from the Punica.

Juvenal (55-140), Satires I, VI, and X.

There is also a 20-page selection at the end of the book devoted to the period's "minor poets": it includes work by Phaedrus, Manilius, Seneca, Petronius Arbiter, the Emperor Hadrian, and poems associated with the Priapus cult.