Author: Alison Sharrock
Rhiannon Ash/
Publisher: Routledge/Foundation Books
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 421
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0415165113
Description
Ranging from Homer to Cassius Dio, Fifty Key Classical Authors is the essential introduction to the most significant writers and texts from the ancient world, Entries include:
Aristotle
Caesar
Catullus
Horace
Lucan
Ovid
Quintilian
Sappho
Tacitus
Virgil
With suggestions for further reading and a concise timeline, this chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers is an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in classical civilization.
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CONTENTS
Alphabetical list of contents
Preface
Introduction
In the Beginning
Athenian Hegemony
Fourth Century
Hellenistic
Early Roman
Late Republican
Augustan
Neronian and Flavian
Trajan and Hadrian
(Not) The end
Timeline
Index
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS
Aeschylus
Apollonius Rhodius
Apuleius
Archilochus
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Julius Caesar
Callimachus
Cassius Dio
Catullus
Cicero
Demosthenes
Ennius
Euripides
Herodotus
Hesiod
Homer
Horace
Juvenal
Lvy
Longus
Lucan
Lucian
Lucretius
Lysias
Martial
Menander
Ovid
Petronius
Pindar
Plato
Plautus
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Polybius
Propertius
Quintilian
Sallust
Sappho
Seneca the Younger
Sophocles
Statius
Suetonius
Sulpicia
Tacitus
Terence
Theocritus
Thucydides
Virgil
Xenophon