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Rome's Finest Art,
This review is from: Roman Poetry: From the Republic to the Silver Age (Paperback)
Philosophically and scientifically, Rome always played second-lyre to the Greeks. But poetry was the one domain (off the battlefield) where the Romans conquered *without* being captured. From Wender's superb translations, it's possible even for the Latin-less to appreciate Rome's finest art. From Catullus to Lucretius, the Romans are here at their most humane and literate, and reading these poems, you too could weep as Ovid did in memory of the City of the World. But I can't fail to mention why this collection of poems beats all the others--that is, Wender's hilariously funny "Introduction" on Rome, Greece, and the United States. To the dismay of my fiancee, I read it to all my dinner guests, and even the most artless (Roman?) of them can hardly keep from falling out of their chairs laughing!So, buy this book now, and--in Wender's words--"Read these good poems." |
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Roman Poetry: From the Republic to the Silver Age by Professor Dorothea Wender (Paperback - February 22, 1991)
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