A History of Roman Literature

by Harold North Fowler

General Works

C. T. Cruttwell. History of Roman Literature, London, 1877, Griffin.

J. W. Mackail. Latin Literature, London, 1895, Murray; New York, Scribner’s.

G. A. Simcox. History of Latin Literature, London and New York, 1883, Longmans, 2 vols.

G. Middleton and T. R. Mills. Handbook to Latin Authors, London and New York, 1896, Macmillan.

W. Y. Sellar. The Roman Poets of the Republic, Oxford, 2d ed. 1889; Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil), Oxford, 1891; Horace and the Elegiac Poets, Oxford, 1892.

R. Y. Tyrrell. Latin Poetry, Boston, 1895, Houghton & Mifflin.

G. F. Aly. Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, Berlin, 1894, R. Gaertner.

G. Bernhardy. Grundriss der römischen Litteratur, 5th ed. Halle, 1872.

W. S. Teuffel. Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, 5th ed. revised by L. Schwabe, Leipzig, 1890, Teubner; translated by G. C. W. Warr, 2 vols., London, 1891, Bell. [Especially good for bibliography.]

M. Schanz. Römische Litteraturgeschichte, Munich, 2d ed. 1898-1901, Beck. 3 vols. (to Constantine); vol. iv (to Justinian) in preparation.

O. Ribbeck. Geschichte der römischen Dichtung. 3 vols. Stuttgart, 1887-’92.

C. Lamarre. Histoire de la Littérature latine depuis la Fondation de Rome jusqu’à la Fin du Gouvernement Républicain; Paris, 1901, Delagrave. 4 vols. [Vol. iv contains selections from Latin literature in the original and in French translation. The literature of the imperial period is to be treated in subsequent volumes.]

G. Michaut. Le Génie latin. Paris, 1900, Fontemoing. [Interesting and suggestive.]

A useful series of books called “Ancient Classics for English Readers” contains Cæsar, by Anthony Trollope; Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, by James Davies; Cicero, by W. L. Collins; Horace, by Theodore Martin; Juvenal, by E. Walford; Livy, by W. L. Collins; Lucretius, by Mallock; Ovid, by A. Church; Plautus and Terence, by W. L. Collins; Pliny, by A. Church and W. J. Brodribb; Tacitus, by W. B. Donne; and Virgil, by W. L. Collins. These are not translations, but essays illustrated by extracts. Published in America by the J. B. Lippincott Co.