| Description |
viii, 474 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographical notes": pages [447]-459. |
| Contents |
The nature of Latin literature -- The beginnings -- Comedy and satire -- Pre-Ciceronian prose -- Lucretius and Catullus -- Caesar, Sallust, and others -- Cicero -- Virgil -- Horace -- Tibullus and Propertius -- Ovid -- Livy and others -- Seneca -- Silver epic -- Satire -- Learning and letters in the first century -- Tacitus and Suetonius -- The age of Hadrian -- The third century -- Paganism at bay: fourth-century prose -- Humanist survival in poetry -- The writers of Christianity. |
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Rome -- Intellectual life.
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Rome -- In literature.
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