Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Roman thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
- Complete translations of Plautus' The Haunted House, Terence's Woman from Andros, Seneca's Medea, and the Deeds of the Deified Augustus.
- Selections from Vergil's Georgics and Aeneid, the poems of Catullus, Horace's Odes, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti, the Satyricon of Petronius, and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.
- Selections from Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, Cicero's speeches and philosophical works, and Quintilian's The Training of the Orator.
- Selections from histories by Sallust, Livy's History of Rome, Tacitus' Annals and Germania, and letters of Pliny the Younger.