The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation 0192142097

Table of contents :
Introduction
GREEK
Part 1: Epic, Homerica
Homer
Hesiod
"The Homeric Hymns"
"Batrachomyomachia"
Part 2: Lyric and Elegiac, Archaic and Classical
Archilochus
Alcman
Sappho
Alcaeus
Anacreon
Phocylides
Simonides
Theognis
Pindar
Bacchylides
Hybrias the Cretan
Praxilla
'Plato'
Part 3: Drama
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Menander
Part 4: Hellenistic and Later Antique
Asclepiades
Posidippus
Theocritus
Leonidas of Tarentum
Tymnes
Callimachus
Heraclitus
Apollonius Rhodius
Moschus
Bion
Antipater of Sidon
Meleager
Anonymous
"Anacreontea"
Marcus Argentarius
Antimedon
Philip
Euenus
Lucilius
Ptolemy
Lucian
Oppian
Palladas
Rufinus
Gregory of Nazianzus
Musaeus
Nonnus
Anonymous
Agathias
Paul the Silentiary
LATIN
Part 5: The Republic
Ennius
Plautus
Terence
"Inscription"
Lucretius
Publilius Syrus
Catullus
Part 6: Virgil, Horace, Ovid
Virgil
Horace
Ovid
Part 7: Propertius to Hadrian
Propertius
Tibullus
Sulpicia
Phaedrus
Manilius
"Aetna"
Persius
Seneca
Petronius
Lucan
Statius
Valerius Flaccus
'Cato'
Silius Italicus
Martial
Juvenal
"Appendix Vergiliana"
Hadrian
Part 8: The Later Empire
"Pervigilium Veneris"
[Flavius Vopiscus]
Nemesianus
Servasius
Claudian
Avianus
'Ambrose'
Prudentius
Ausonius
Paulinus of Nola
Namatianus
Boethius
References
Acknowledgements
Index of first lines
Index of translators
Index of classical authors

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THE OXFORD BOOK OF

CLASSICAL VERSE IN TRANSLATION

THE OXFORD BOOK OF

CLASSICAL VERSE IN TRANSLATION

Edited by

Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1995

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