This selection of short poems provides an insight into Roman attitudes towards life in the country and life in the city.
The Stories
The city, hour by hour
Page 72Martial, Epigrams IV.8
The sights ... of the countryside
Page 74Ovid, Remedia Amoris 175-84 and 187-90
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Thoughts of home
Page 76Ovid, Ex Ponto I.VIII.29-38
A country spring Page 78
Horace, Odes III.13
The town mouse and country mouse Page 80
Horace, Satires II.6.79-117