Rome: Empire & Eternity

The literature of Rome and its long shadow — Virgil’s epic, the Stoic emperors, Ovid’s exile, and the empire that the West never stopped imitating.

The city that conquered the world

In this collection

• Fragments
• The Enchiridion
• The Last Words of Marcus
• The Sayings of Macus Aurelius
• Speech to the Army on the News of the Revolt of Cassius
• The Meditations
• Speech Sent to the Senate
• Metamorphoses
• Ars Amatoria
• The Aeneid
• The Eclogues
• The Georgics
• Ovid in Exile
• Julius Caesar

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