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Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

1486 537 ed.
Georgica
Georgica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...

1523 188 ed.
Satirae
Satirae

by Horace

The individual poems comprising each book of the Satires are not arranged chronologically in the order of their composit...

1763 115 ed.
Theogony
Theogony

by Hesiod, Theognis

FROM the Muses of Helicon let us begin our singing, that haunt Helicon's great and holy mountain, and dance on their sof...

1953 28 ed.
Works and Days
Works and Days

by Hesiod

Works and Day is a Greek poem of 828 hexameter verses that was composed in the early seventh century B.C.E. by a man nam...

1559 23 ed.
Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom

by D. N. Sedley

Lucreti poemata ut scribis ita sunt, multis luminibus ingeni, multae tamen artis, sed cum veneris, virum te putabo si Sa...

1998 5 ed.