This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The

This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle fo

In this memorial volume for David West, the texts of six Latin poets (Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Virgil, and Hildebert of Lavardin) are ana

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California.

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretatio