The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the ...

What did it mean - in terms of social, cultural, and literary negotiations - to publish one's own work in Rome at the end of the first century CE? What kinds of traces has the ...

Pliny's Women offers a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with close literary ...

Written primarily by practising commentators, these papers examine the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts.

Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of ...

Ovid's Ars Amatoria has long had a reputation for 'excess', both moral and stylistic. Augustus' banishment of the poet to Romania in 8 AD - for teaching 'foul adultery' in the ...

Publisher description

"In the introduction to his new translation, P.G. Walsh examines the background to these often intimate and enthralling letters."--Jacket.