Frank reads early Latin literature against the social forces that produced it: the first tragedies and epics, Greek comedy adapted for the Roman stage, Terence and his successors, the prose of statesmen, the historians down to Livy, Cicero’s response to his times, and Lucretius and his readers. Theatre audiences, patrons and politics are always in view.
An accessible study by a leading American historian of Rome, ideal for readers of Plautus, Cicero or Lucretius. Download the free EPUB.