NOTE
The following Chronological Outlines of Roman History and Literature are intended to illustrate the passages selected for translation. Important events and writers in contemporary History and Literature are added, in order to emphasise the comparative method of treating History.
The names of those Latin authors from whose works passages have been selected are printed in capitals in the Literature Column.
A fuller outline of the Imperial Period will be given in a later volume.
PERIODS OF LATIN LITERATURE.
| Period I. | The Growth of Latin Literature | 250-80 B.C. |
| Period II. | The Golden Age of Latin Literature | 80 B.C.-14 A.D. |
| Period III. | The Silver Age of Latin Literature | 14-117 A.D. |
| Period IV. | The Later Empire | from 117 A.D. |