A History of Roman Literature. From Livius Andronicus to Boethius with Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature (2 Vols.)

A HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: LITERATURE AND LITERARY HISTORY
FIRST CHAPTER: CONDITIONS OF THE RISE OF ROMAN LITERATURE
Historical Background
Conditions of The Rise of Literature
Latin and Greek Literature: Tradition and Renewal
Individual and Genre
Dialogue with the Reader and Literary Technique
Language and Style
Ideas I: Conquest of an Intellectual World: Poetry, Thought, and Teaching
Ideas II: Old Roman Mentality versus Modem Ideas
Before Literature
SECOND CHAPTER: LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD
I. SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF THE REPUBUCAN PERIOD
Historical Background
Conditions of the Rise of Literature
Latin and Greek Literature
Genres
Language and Style
Ideas 1: Reflections on Literature
Ideas II
II. POETRY
A. Epic and Drama
Roman Epic
Roman Drama
Livius Andronicus
Naevius
Ennius
Pacuvius
Accius
Plautus
Caecilius
Terence
B. Satura
Roman Satura
Lucilius
C. The Didactic Poem
Roman Didactic Poetry
Lucretius
D. Lyric and Epigram
Roman Lyric
Roman Epigram
Catullus
III. PROSE
A. Historiography and Related Genres
Roman Historical Writing
Historians of the Republican Period
Cato the Elder
Caesar
Sallust
B. Biography
Biography at Rome
Nepos
C. Oratory, Philosophy, Epistolography
Roman Orators
Philosophical Writers at Rome
The Letter in Roman Literature
Cicero
D. Technical and Educational Authors
Roman Technical Writers
Latin Grammarians
Rhetorical Writers at Rome
The Rhetorica Ad Herennium
Varro
Roman Jurists
Juridical Literature of the Republican Period
THIRD CHAPTER: LITERATURE OF THE AUGUSTAN PERIOD
I. SURVEY OF LITERATURE OF THE AUGUSTAN PERIOD
Historical Background
The Emergence of Literature
Latin and Greek Literature
Genres
Language and Style
Ideas 1: Reflections on Literature
Ideas II
II. POETRY
A. Epic, Didactic, Bucolic
Roman Bucolic
Virgil
B. Lyric, lamb, Satire, Epistle
Horace
C. Elegy
Roman Love Elegy
Tibullus
Propertius
Ovid
D. Minor Poets of the Augustan Period
III. PROSE
A. History
Historians of the Augustan Period
Asinius Pollio
Livy
Pompeius Trogus
B. Oratory
Orators of the Augustan Period
C. Philosophy
Philosophical Writers of the Augustan Period
D. Technical and Educational Authors
Technical Writers of the Augustan Period
Vitruvius
Jurists of the Augustan Period
FOURTH CHAPTER: LITERATURE OF EARLY EMPIRE
I. SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF EARLY EMPIRE
Historical Background
Conditions of the Rise of Literature
Latin and Greek Literature
Genres
Language and Style
Ideas 1: Reflections on Literature
Ideas II
II. POETRY
A. Epic
Lucan
Valerius Flaccus
Statius
Silius ltalicus
B. Didactic Poetry
Manilius
Germanicus
C. Bucolic
Calpurnius
Appendix: The Carmina Einsidlensia
D. Drama
Seneca (s. chapter III C, pp. 1158-1204)
E. Fable
Latin Aesopic Fables in Verse
Phaedrus
F. Satura
Persius
Juvenal
G. Epigram
Martial
The Priapea
III. PROSE
A. Historiography and Related Genres
Velleius Paterculus
Valerius Maximus
Curtius Rufus
Tacitus
B. Speeches and Letters
Pliny the Younger
C. Philosophy (and Drama)
Seneca
Appendix: The Praetexta Octavia
D. Novel
The Roman Novel
Petronius
E. Technical and Educational Authors
Technical Authors of Early Empire
Seneca the Elder
Quintilian
Pliny the Elder
Juridical Literature of Early Empire
FIFTH CHAPTER: LITERATURE OF MIDDLE AND LATE EMPIRE
I. SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF MIDDLE AND LATE EMPIRE
Preliminary Remarks
Historical Framework
Conditions of the Rise of Literature
Latin and Greek Literature
Genres
Language and Style
Ideas I: Reflections on Literature
Ideas II
II. POETRY
The Poetry of Middle and Late Empire
The Poetae Novelli
Ausonius
Avianus
Rutilius Namatianus
Claudian
Juvencus
Sedulius
Prudentius
III. PROSE
A. Historiography and Related Genres
Writers of History in Middle and Late Empire
Suetonius
Florus
Ammianus Marcellinus
B. Oratory and Epistolography
Fronto
The Panegyrici Latini
Symmachus
C. Novel
Prose Fiction of Middle and Late Empire
Apuleius
D. Technical and Educational Authors
The Authorities of the Schools
Technical Writers of Middle and Late Empire
Gellius
Macrobius
Martianus Capella
Cassiodorus
2. The Founders of Western Law
Juridical Literature of Middle and Late Empire
3. The Latin Fathers of Western Civilization
The Origins of Christian Latin Prose
Tertullian
Minucius Felix
Cyprian
Appendix: The Life of Cyprian, by Pontius
Novatian
Arnobius
Lactantius
Julius Firmicus Maternus
Marius Victorinus
Hilary of Poitiers
Ambrose
Jerome
Rufinus and Other Translators
Augustine
Boethius
SIXTH CHAPTER: THE TRANSMISSION OF ROMAN LITERATURE
GENERAL LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE