TY - BOOK ID - 32834189 TI - Minor Latin poets PY - 1978 VL - 284 SN - 0674993144 9780674993143 0434992844 9780434992843 9780674994782 0674994787 PB - Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press, DB - UniCat KW - Latin poetry. KW - Latin poetry KW - English poetry KW - Translations from Latin. KW - Greek influences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32834189 AB - This is the second volume of an anthology of Latin poetry. The two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished ca. 45 BCE, and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the work. ER -