Golden Verses: Poetry of the Augustan Age

(Paperback, New edition)

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Golden Verses: Poetry of the Augustan Age is an anthology containing fresh and rhythmic translations of the great poets from the Augustan period and covering a broad range of verse Includes an introduction, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography and notes. It is also designed to be read in conjunction with major works of the Augustan Age, Ovid's Metamorphosis and Vergil's Aeneid.

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...The selections are rich, varied, and broad-ranging enough to satisfy most instructors' (or readers') needs; the translations are sensitive, accurate, and certainly readable. Indeed, the translations alone represent an impressive achievement. -- Alain Growing, University of Washington

Author Bio

Paul Alessi (Ph. D. University of Missouri, Columbia) is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has published on the poet Propertius, and his research and interests are with Augustan literature, Roman culture and Etruscan archaeology. He "Golden Prose in the Age of Augustus" and "Golden Verses: Poetry in the Augustan Age," both for Focus Publishing.