The Oxford History Of The Classical World

knowing it to be leisure poetry, marginal poetry. Thus the image, and it was indeed useful to Horace. Committed at this time to ...

intemptata nites! ... What slim boy, Pyrrha, drenched in liquid scents presses you in an abundance of roses under some pleasing ...

Breastplate Of The Statue Of Augustus From Prima Porta (early first century A.D.). The imagery of the reliefs is closely related ...

Propertius is socially grander than Virgil and Horace and strikes a provocatively unconventional stance in life and literature ( ...

For example, poem 2 of Book 1 is a speech to Cynthia dissuading her from meretricious behaviour, in particular the use of cosmet ...

Achilles Surrenders Briseis to the emissaries of Agamemnon: Pompeian painting (between A.D. 62 and 79) from the House of the Tra ...

is perhaps one of his best compositions. In another fine poem the moral story of Tarpeia is given an erotic motive-again pleasur ...

learn that she is part of Tibullus' vision of rural life, indeed as poem 2 reveals to us, an essential part of his vision of rur ...

It has often been said that Ovid was anti-Augustan. The label is not exactly appropriate. Ovid was indeed irreverent towards Aug ...

laws had made adultery criminal; he produces a second edition of Ars, and Amores, at about the time when Augustus' own daughter ...

Phaedra And Hippolytus: detail of a carved sarcophagus (late second century A.D.). The youthful Hippolytus (centre) is shunning ...

attempt something at once seriously Callimachean and patriotic: the calendar offered ample pegs on which to hang praise of Rome ...

Virgil (By Jasper Griffin) Preamble Publius Vergilius Maro, in English normally called Virgil, was a celebrated figure in his ...

emerges, Rome has burst into his world. After the defeat of Brutus and Cassius in 42, the Caesarian party had to take care of th ...

Daphnis, another name from Theocritus. Cruelly cut off and lamented by his mother, Daphnis becomes a god, a patron of peace, hai ...

Relief Of Mother Earth On The Ara Pacis (13-9BC). The fruitfulness of the earth, portrayed in typical Hellenistic style with chi ...

Pastoral Landscape By Claude Lorraine (1645). The great seventeenth-century landscape painter was much influenced by Virgil, and ...

But over high Parnassus' lonely crest Poetic rapture bears me: sweet to pass Where never wheel has marked the tender grass. He w ...

No less burn heavy poppies, slumber-drowned. The repetition of the verb, the shaping of the sentence, the unusual rhythm of the ...

The Aeneid Virgil was still working on his epic when in 19 B.C. he died. We are credibly told that at the last he asked his frie ...