This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry.

Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. They are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with both a wide selection of translated extracts and a useful exploration of the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture.

The versatile structure of the book makes it suitable for both individual and class use.

The Author

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor of Classics at Yale University and previously taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol and London. She has written numerous books and articles on Roman satire and epic, and has also translated Lucan’s Civil War into English verse.