ROMAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.—1. Roman Literature and its Divisions.—2. The Language;
Ethnographical Elements of the Latin Language; the Umbrian; Oscan;
Etruscan; the Old Roman Tongue; Saturnian Verse; Peculiarities of the
Latin Language.—3. The Roman Religion.
PERIOD FIRST.—1. Early Literature of the Romans; the Fescennine Songs; the Fabulae Atellanae.—2. Early Latin Poets; Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Ennius.—3. Roman Comedy.—4. Comic Poets; Plautus, Terence, and Statius.—5. Roman Tragedy.—6. Tragic Poets; Pacuvius and Attius.—7. Satire; Lucilius.—8. History and Oratory; Fabius Pictor; Cencius Alimentus; Cato; Varro; M. Antonius; Crassus; Hortensius.—9. Roman Jurisprudence.—10. Grammarians.
PERIOD SECOND.—1. Development of the Roman Literature.—2. Mimes, Mimographers, Pantomime; Laberius and P. Lyrus.—3. Epic Poetry; Virgil; the Aeneid.—4. Didactic Poetry; the Bucolics; the Georgics; Lucretius. —5. Lyric Poetry; Catullus; Horace.—6. Elegy; Tibullus; Propertius; Ovid.—7. Oratory and Philosophy; Cicero.—8. History; J. Caesar; Sallust; Livy.—9. Other Prose Writers.
PERIOD THIRD.—1. Decline of Roman Literature.—2. Fable; Phaedrus.—3.
Satire and Epigram; Persius, Juvenal, Martial.—4. Dramatic Literature;
the Tragedies of Seneca.—5. Epic Poetry; Lucan; Silius Italicus; Valerius
Flaccus; P. Statius.—6. History; Paterculus; Tacitus; Suetonius; Q.
Curtius; Valerius Maximus.—7. Rhetoric and Eloquence; Quintilian; Pliny
the Younger.—8. Philosophy and Science; Seneca; Pliny the Elder; Celsus;
P. Mela; Columella; Frontinus.—9. Roman Literature from Hadrian to
Theodoric; Claudian; Eutropius; A. Marcellinus; S. Sulpicius; Gellius;
Macrobius; L. Apuleius; Boethius: the Latin Fathers.—10. Roman
Jurisprudence.