A History of Roman Literature

CONTENTS

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

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