Author(s): Peter Jones
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 368
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1B......Page 40
Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 9
Preliminary remarks......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Notes......Page 21
Maps......Page 22
Introduction......Page 25
Part One Plautus’ comedies......Page 29
Section 1 Plautus’ Aululāria......Page 30
Section 2 Plautus’ Amphitruō......Page 80
Part Two Early Roman history: from Aeneas to Hannibal......Page 109
Section 3A Aeneas and the Trojan War......Page 110
Section 3B Romulus and Remus......Page 119
Section 3C Sextus Tarquinius and Lucretia, 509 BC......Page 125
Section 3D Hannibal......Page 134
Part Three The demise of the Roman Republic......Page 145
Section 4 Provincial corruption: the Verres scandal 73–71......Page 146
Section 5 The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome 64–62......Page 190
Section 6A High life and high society: Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 BC)......Page 244
Section 6B 49: Cicero, Caelius and the approach of civil war......Page 258
Section 6C: The end of the civil war: the battle of Pharsalus......Page 274
Section 6D: Four Roman poets......Page 286
Part Four Additional Reading for Sections 1B to 5G......Page 307
Additional readings relating to Section 1......Page 308
Additional readings relating to Section 2......Page 314
Additional readings relating to Section 3......Page 319
Additional readings relating to Section 4......Page 322
Additional readings relating to Section 5......Page 336
Total Latin–English Learning Vocabulary......Page 353
