| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I.— | Introduction—Early Roman literature—Tragedy | [1] |
| II.— | Comedy | [17] |
| III.— | Early prose—The Scipionic Circle—Lucilius | [32] |
| IV.— | Lucretius | [47] |
| V.— | Catullus—Minor poets | [56] |
| VI.— | Cicero | [65] |
| VII.— | Cæsar—Sallust—Other prose writers | [83] |
| VIII.— | The patrons of literature—Virgil | [97] |
| IX.— | Horace | [114] |
| X.— | Tibullus—Propertius—The lesser poets | [128] |
| XI.— | Ovid | [143] |
| XII.— | Livy—Other Augustan prose writers | [156] |
| XIII.— | Tiberius to Vespasian | [169] |
| XIV.— | The Flavian emperors—The silver age | [194] |
| XV.— | Nerva and Trajan | [211] |
| XVI.— | The emperors after Trajan—Suetonius—Other writers | [226] |
| XVII.— | Literary innovations | [235] |
| XVIII.— | Early Christian writers | [244] |
| XIX.— | Pagan literature of the third century | [253] |
| XX.— | The fourth and fifth centuries | [259] |
| XXI.— | Conclusion | [278] |
| Appendix I.—Bibliography | [285] |
| Appendix II.—Chronological table | [297] |
| Index | [303] |