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Latin Literature
By J. W. Mackail, Sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford

A history of Latin Literature was to have been written for this series of Manuals by the late Professor William Sellar. After his death I was asked, as one of his old pupils, to carry out the work which he had undertaken; and this book is now offered as a last tribute to the memory of my dear friend and master. J. W. M.

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

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