Books by Peter Toohey

This work presents a comprehensive survey of the major surviving examples of Greek and Roman didactic poetry: Hesiod's "Works and Days", Lucretius' "On the Universe", Virgil's "Georgics" and Ovid's "Art of Love", amongst others.

This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and the interface between epic and the novel.