Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature written by M. C. Howatson and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and illustrating guide to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome largely upon the lives and works of the principal authors and places them within societal and political context of the day.