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Drawing on the best writers of its civilization, Hamilton vividly depicts the life span and spirit of Rome.In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit because they are revealed in the best writers of the time. 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 storyplot concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal.Nobody today shows us more vividly . . . the grandeur that was Rome. Filtering the golden essence from the mass of classical literature, she proved how applicable to your daily lives will be the humor and wisdom greater than 2,000 years back.? New York Times
