CONTENTS.
I. THE REPUBLIC.
I. ORIGINS OF LATIN LITERATURE: EARLY EPIC AND TRAGEDY.
Andronicus—Naevius—Ennius—Pacuvius—Accius
II. COMEDY: PLAUTUS AND TERENCE.
III. EARLY PROSE: THE SATURA, OR MIXED MODE.
The Early Jurists, Annalists, and Orators—Cato—The
Scipionic Circle—Lucilius
IV. LUCRETIUS.
V. LYRIC POETRY: CATULLUS.
Cinna and Calvus—Catullus
VI. CICERO.
VII. PROSE OF THE CICERONIAN AGE.
Julius Caesar—The Continuators of the Commentaries—
Sallust—Nepos—Varro—Publilius Syrus
II. THE AUGUSTAN AGE.
I. VIRGIL.
II. HORACE.
III. PROPERTIUS AND THE ELEGISTS.
Augustan Tragedy—Gallus—Propertius—Tibullus
IV. OVID.
Sulpicia—Ovid
V. LIVY.
VI. THE LESSER AUGUSTANS.
Manilius—Phaedrus—Velleius—Paterculus—Celsus—
Vitruvius—The Elder Seneca
III. THE EMPIRE.
I. THE ROME OF NERO.
The Younger Seneca—Lucan—Persius—Quintus Curtius
—Columella—Calpurnius—Petronius
II. THE SILVER AGE.
Statius—Valerius Flaccus—Silius Italicus—Martial—The
Elder Pliny—Quintilian
III. TACITUS.
IV. JUVENAL, THE YOUNGER PLINY, SUETONIUS: DECAY OF CLASSICAL LATIN.
V. THE ELOCUTIO NOVELLA.
Fronto—Apuleius—The Pervigilium Veneris
VI. EARLY LATIN CHRISTIANITY.
Minucius Felix—Tertullian—Cyprian—Arnobius—
Lactantius—Commodianus
VII. THE FOURTH CENTURY.
Papinian and Ulpian—Sammonicus—Nemesianus—
Tiberianus—The Augustan History—Ausonius—Claudian
—Prudentius—Ammianus Marcellinus
VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
The End of the Ancient World—The Four Periods of
Latin Literature—The Empire and the Church