Two Centuries of Roman Prose [Paperback]

First published by Macmillan in 1972 as a sequel to the successfulTwo Centuries of Roman Poetry, this volume is also designed to introduce students to a wider range of Latin prose than they would normally encounter in a single-author prescription. From the first century BC the authors represented are Cicero (including letters and philosophy as well as oratory) Sallust, Livy and Cornelius Nepos; from silver Latin of the first century AD, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus and the younger Pliny. Apart from the range of prose styles and genres included, all the passages are chosen for their intrinsic interest: Tacitus on the British (Agricola), Petronius on the werewolf (Satyricon), Livy on Hannibal in the alps (Book XXX) Taciltus on the death of Agrippina (Annals XIV), Pliny on the landscape at the source of the Clitumnus (Letters 8, 8). There are extensive notes on language, content and a full vocabulary.

Extracts from Cicero, Nepos, Sallust, Livy, Petronius, Seneca, Pliny
and Tacitus In Latin with notes and introductory material in English.

E.C. Kennedywas Classics Master at Malvern College, UK. WithA.R. Davis, he co-editedTwo Centuries of Roman Poetry, Euripides: Scenes from Rhesus and Helen .

Preface
How To Read Latin
Putting Latin Prose To Work
Table of Dates
Part I
1 CICERO 'Brave Men Despise Death' (Tusculan Disputations I, 96-102)
2 CORNELIUS NEPOS The Life of Aristides
3 SALLUST The Early History of Rome (Catiline 6, 7, 9)
4 LIVY How Servius Tullius Became King of Rome (I, 39-4I)
5 PETRONIUS The Werewolf (Satyricon 6I, 6-62)
6 SENECA Thoughts in a Tunnel (Epistulae Morales 57)
7 PLINY THE YOUNGER PAGE (a) A Mysterious Spring (4, 30) 6I
(b) The Source of the Clitumnus (S, S) 64
8. TACITUS Britain and the British (Agricola I0-12)
Part II
9 CICERO (a) An Orator Defies Death (Philippic II, I IS to end)
(b) Ethics of a Salesman (De Officiis III, 54-55)
(c) Domest