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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