Mackail moves through Roman letters in three ages: the Republic, from Livius Andronicus, Ennius, Plautus and Terence to Lucretius, Catullus and Cicero; the Augustan Age of Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Livy; and the Empire, from Seneca and Tacitus to the last writers of antiquity. He judges each author with a critic’s ear as well as a scholar’s knowledge.
Still one of the most readable short guides to Roman literature, by a translator of the Aeneid. Download the free EPUB.