A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age
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- From Tiberius to Hadrian
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1. The Library of Literary History2. A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age3. Preface4. CHAPTER I PROLOGUE5. CHAPTER II ROMAN EDUCATION UNDER THE EMPIRE6. CHAPTER I THE ELDER SENECA: ORATORS AND RHETORICIANS7. CHAPTER II VALERIUS MAXIMUS—A REPERTORY FOR SPEAKERS8. CHAPTER III VELLEIUS, CURTIUS AND HISTORY9. CHAPTER IV CELSUS: MELA: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING10. CHAPTER V PHAEDRUS AND FABLE: POETRY OF THE TIME11. CHAPTER I COLUMELLA AND AGRICULTURE12. CHAPTER II PETRONIUS: NOVELIST AND POET13. CHAPTER III SENECA THE PHILOSOPHER: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING14. CHAPTER IV SENECAN SATIRE AND POETRY: DRAMA OF THE AGE15. CHAPTER V PERSIUS: STOIC SATIRE16. CHAPTER VI LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC17. CHAPTER VII CALPURNIUS SICULUS AND MINOR POETRY OF THE NERONIAN AGE18. CHAPTER I THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY19. CHAPTER II QUINTILIAN: DECLAMATIONS AND ORATORS20. CHAPTER III FRONTINUS AND TECHNICAL WRITERS21. CHAPTER IV VALERIUS FLACCUS22. CHAPTER V SILIUS ITALICUS23. CHAPTER VI STATIUS24. CHAPTER VII MARTIAL AND MINOR FLAVIAN POETRY25. CHAPTER I PLINY THE YOUNGER AND MINOR CONTEMPORARIES26. CHAPTER II TACITUS27. CHAPTER III JUVENAL28. LITERATURE IN THE REIGN OF HADRIAN A.D. 117–A.D. 13829. CONCLUSION AN EPILOGUE—THE SECOND CENTURY AND AFTER30. INDEX