PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
PREFATORY NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTER OF ROMAN POETRY. PAGE Recent
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTER OF ROMAN POETRY.
CHAPTER II. Vestiges of Early Indigenous Poetry in Rome and Ancient Italy.
CHAPTER III. The Beginning of Roman Literature Livius Andronicus Cn. Naevius, b.c. 240-202.
CHAPTER IV. Ennius.
CHAPTER V. Early Roman Tragedy M. Pacuvius, b.c. 219-129; L. Accius, b.c. 170-about b.c. 90
CHAPTER VI. Roman Comedy. Plautus. About 254 To 184 b.c.
CHAPTER VII. Terence and the Comic Poets subsequent to Plautus.
CHAPTER VIII. Early Roman Satire C. Lucilius, Died 102 b.c.
CHAPTER IX. Review of the First Period.
CHAPTER X. TRANSITION FROM LUCILIUS TO LUCRETIUS AND CATULLUS.
CHAPTER XI. Lucretius. Personal Characteristics.
CHAPTER XII. The Philosophy of Lucretius.
CHAPTER XIII. The Religious Attitude and Moral Teaching of Lucretius.
CHAPTER XIV. The Literary Art and Genius of Lucretius.
CHAPTER XV. Catullus.
THE ROMAN POETS OF
THE REPUBLIC
BY
W. Y. SELLAR, M.A., LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF HUMANITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD
RE-ISSUE OF THE THIRD EDITION
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M DCCCC V
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH
NEW YORK AND TORONTO
[Dedication of the Edition of 1881.]
TO
J. C. SHAIRP, M.A., LL.D.,
PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGE, ST. ANDREWS,
PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF MUCH ACTIVE AND GENEROUS KINDNESS,
AND OF
A LONG AND STEADY FRIENDSHIP,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
