... Syracuse and Agrigento , the names of two Siceliot poets have survived . Stesichorus , who lived in Catania in the ... Theocritus , a Syracusan who lived in the 4th - 3rd centuries BC , created the genre of pastorals , short poems ...

Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry.

This book explains what poverty meant in antiquity, and why the poor came to be an important group in the Roman world, and it explores the issues which poverty and the poor raised for Roman society and for Roman writers.

This edition, the first with a full commentary in English to appear for eighty years, sensitively elucidates the subtle art with which this transformation has been accomplished, and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive ...