A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age

By the same Author

A Literary History of Rome. From the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age.

“Mr. Duff’s wide acquaintance with modern literature is not the least of his qualifications.... His treatise, full and erudite, yet everywhere human and interesting, cannot fail to deepen in his readers the sense of the continuity of literature and the relation of literature to life, and the debt of the modern world to Rome.”—The Times.

“Professor Wight Duff compels us to listen. To those who even dimly remember their Latin there is something irresistible in his style and arrangement, in his knowledge and in the temperate freshness of his criticism.”—The Nation.

“A work of rare scholarship condensed with consummate care and judgment.”—Scotsman.

“What particularly marks it out for suggestiveness and vigour is the broad human platform from which it surveys the progress of Latin poetry and prose.”—The Daily Telegraph.

“An author who can render so many diverse authors adequately appeals to us at once as an understanding critic at any rate.... There is labour and erudition and a keen sense of literary values.”—Saturday Review.

“The book is thoroughly up-to-date, and incorporates the results of recent philological and historical research. It is written in a style which commands admiration for its lucidity, terseness and vigour.”—The Classical Review.

“The taste and skill of his illustrative translations indicate a critic whose independent judgment of literary quality, and whose divination of the final and essential charm of a masterpiece are far better worth recording than is usually the case in works of this sort. As a matter of fact, however, we have had no works of this sort, at all events, in our own tongue.”—American Journal of Philology.

“L’ouvrage s’addresse donc à un large public cultivé, sans exclure les gens de métier.... Ses jugements sont ceux d’un homme de goût qui n’accepte pas sans examen les décisions d’autrui.... Il connaît bien ce dont il parle et il le fait connaître.”—Professor Lejay in Revue de philologie de littérature et d’histoire anciennes.

“Ein sympathetisches und wohl zu lesendes Buch, dessen Recht und Wert darin legt dass der Verfasser ein persönliches Verhältnis zu den Personen und Dingen hat über die er schreibt, seine Eindrücke in die Beleuchtung einer feinen und weiten Bildung rückt, stets das Ganze nicht trüben lässt, noch auch umgekehrt. Er hat auch Sinn für den Hintergrund und Zusammenhang der Dinge, wenigstens so weit beides römisch ist.”—Professor Friedrich Leo in Deutsche Literaturzeitung.

ROMAN ART OF THE SILVER AGE.

Reliefs from frieze of temple of Minerva in Nerva’s Forum representing the goddess’s patronage of domestic arts.

From photograph by Alinari.

A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age

From Tiberius to Hadrian

By J. Wight Duff

M.A., D.Litt. (Oxon.), Hon. D.Litt. (Durham), LL.D. (Aberdeen); Professor of Classics, Armstrong College (in the University of Durham), Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Author of “A Literary History of Rome to the Close of the Golden Age” and “Writers of Rome”

T. Fisher Unwin Limited Bouverie House, Fleet Street 1927

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

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