Rome in literature

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The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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91 books

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

1684 ★ 3.6

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1881 ★ 3.5

Aeneis

Publius Vergilius Maro

1800 ★ 3.4

Carmina

Horace

1713 ★ 3.0

Epigrammata

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Winfried. Schindler, Paul Barie et al.

1716

Elegiae

Albius Tibullus, Georg Luck, Sextus Propertius

1780

Satirae

Horace

1795

Elegiae

Albius Tibullus

1817

Horace

1835

The garden of Priapus

Amy Richlin

1983

The nature of Roman comedy

George Eckel Duckworth

1952

The poetry of the Aeneid

Michael C. J. Putnam

1965

Roman poetry

E. E. Sikes

1991

Virgil, a study in civilized poetry

Brooks Otis

1963

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Bloom's Notes)

Harold Bloom

1995

Poets in a landscape

Gilbert Highet

1957

Themes in Roman satire

Niall Rudd

1986

Virgils epische Technik

Richard Heinze

1903

Catullus

Kenneth Quinn

1972

A commentary on Catullus

Robinson Ellis

1889

Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar'

David Daiches

1976

Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria 2

Alison Sharrock

1994

Horace

Eduard Fraenkel

1957

Reading Latin poetry

Roger A. Hornsby

1967

Roman erotic elegy

Paul Veyne

1988

ROMAN SATIRE

DANIEL M. HOOLEY

2007

Ovid

Niklas Holzberg

2002

Imperial projections

Margaret Malamud, Donald T. McGuire, Sandra R. Joshel

2001

The golden plectrum

Richard Minadeo

1982

Gendering classicism

Ruth Hoberman

1997

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