The Roman Way
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ISBN: 0393310787 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, August 1993
Uses Roman writings to describe the unique qualities of the ancient Roman character
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Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. The story concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal.
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