The contributors analyse passages from various authors to demonstrate how Latin authors created new works of art by imitating earlier literature.

Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences.

A “fascinating” meditation on the joys of a not-so-dead language (Los Angeles Review of Books). From acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini,

Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings together two monuments of the High

Western literature knows the anacreontic poems best in the translations or adaptations of such poets as Ronsard, Herrick and Goethe. This collection of poems, o