and Georgics, which tell of the Italian’s love for his native countryside. Other poets of the period take us for the most part into a different atmosphere; Horace, and still more Ovid, and satirists such as Martial and Juvenal, reflect the more sophisticated life of the city. Seneca may be read for practical Roman philosophy; interesting and often amusing glimpses of character and social custom under the Empire can be found in, for example, the works of Lucian, in Trimalchio’s Supper (Petronius),