Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius

$3.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Little Black Classics 21 | Reading Level: very good

'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, wit h books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Titus Petronius Arbiter (1st century BCE-c.66 CE). Petronius's The Satyricon is also available in Penguin Classics. ...Show more

Ovid - The Lover's Handbook - A complete translation of the Ars Amatoria by Ovid

$25.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Broadway Translations | Reading Level: very good

Ovid - The Mirror of Venus - Love Poems and Stories from Ovid's Amores, Medicamina a Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Heroidae, Dasti & Metamorphoses by Ovid

$25.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Broadway Translations | Reading Level: very good

The Works of Horace translated literally into English prose for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language by Horace

$55.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Reading Level: very good

Plautus - Four Comedies - The Braggart Soldier; the Brothers Menaechmus; the Haunted House; the Pot of Gold by Plautus

$10.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, makin g these the most readable and actable versions available. His introduction considers Plautus's place in ancient comedy, examines his continuing influence, and celebrates his power to entertain. ...Show more

Ars Amatoria by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

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Category: Latin Literature | Reading Level: good

Plautus - The Darker Comedies - Bacchides, Casina, and Truculentus by James Tatum

$16.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Reading Level: very good

The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general.A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus, prostitutes snare all of the men in the play; in Bacc hides, the victims include fathers and sons. In Casina, Plautus creates a fantasy that turns traditional social and sexual roles upside down. The plays' mordant, cynical treatment of the normal plots and casts of Roman comedy, their dark humor rooted in homosexuality, oedipal encounters, cruelty, larceny, and prostitution, and their pervasive lack of romance or sentimentality have alternately puzzled and offended the few audiences that have seen them since the Renaissance. Now these unusual plays have been rescued from obscurity in the best possible way--through performance. James Tatum's translations, revised from actual productions, demonstrate that these are among the most entertaining and theatrically effective of Plautus's comedies. The speakable, performable scripts, along with Tatum's introduction, notes, and critical essays summarizing his own experiences in producing them, make this a gold mine for troupes wishing to produce these classics on the contemporary stage as well as for students of classical drama. ...Show more

The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger

$7.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishi ng range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country. ...Show more

Phormio and Other Plays by Terence

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Category: Latin Literature | Reading Level: good

Letters of Marcilio Ficino Volume 1 by Marsilio Ficino

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good

The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many deep thinking people turned to Marsilio Ficino for help. Through his letters he advised, encouraged, and occasionally reproved them. Fearlessly he expressed the truth and his wisdom influenced many of the finest Western minds. He numbered statesmen, popes, artists, scientists, and philosophers amongst his circle. ...Show more

The Pot of Gold & Other Plays by Titus Maccius Plautus

$6.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and h is slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values. ...Show more