Fifty Key Classical Authors

by Rhiannon Ash, Rhiannon Ashley

A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this book is a vital tool for all students of classical civilization.

Genres: Nonfiction, Classics

421 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2000

About the author

Dr. Rhiannon Ash is Fellow and Tutor in Classics and Merton College, Oxford University. She has published widely on Tacitus' Histories (including a monograph, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus' Histories (1999) and a commentary on the Latin text of Tacitus Histories Book 2 (2007). She is interested in all Latin prose literature of the imperial period, including Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.