The Portable Roman Reader Author:Basil Davenport The great days of the Republic are here represented by Caesar and Cicero; the Augustan Age by Virgil, Livy, and Ovid. Petronius, Martial, and Juvenal reflect the Silver Age, with its accent on the accumulation of wealth; Seneca, Lucan, and Tacitus speak for the heroic past; while the poets Catullus, Horace, and Lucretius mirror all time as well ... more »as their own ages. The "Pervigilium Veneris," that too-little-known masterpiece, is given in full, and in other respects, also, the less familiar has been drawn upon to balance the familiar. Brilliant introductions to each period help us to understand the unifying principles of the Roman world.« less