A literary history of Rome, from the origins to the close of the Golden Age.
By: Edited by A. M. Duff.
Edition: [3d ed.]
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: Latin literature -- History and criticism.; Rome -- Intellectual life.; Rome -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: A foreword on environment -- The origins, geographical and tribal. Rome and the land of Italy -- Peoples of Italy -- The Latin language : its history and qualities. Latin in relation to Greek, Celtic and the Italic dialects -- History of the Latin language -- - Its main qualities -- The Roman character and religion. Character -- Religion -- The earliest Latin. Features of the archaic fragments -- Oldest archaeological specimens of Latin -- Archaic Latin: A: Poetry -- B: Prose -- The invasion of Hellenism. 240-70 B.C. -- Social conditions -- History of Greek and Roman contacts -- Art treasures and books brought to Rome -- Greek immigrants to Rome -- Opposition and encouragement -- Influence on Roman education, rhetoric and philosophy -- National and Hellenic features in the literature of the period -- The pioneers of Roman poetry. Livius Andronicus -- Cn. Naevius -- Q. Ennius -- the theatre and the masters of; title: comedy. Roman theatre -- Plautus -- Caecilius Statius -- Contemporary authors of palliatae -- Terence -- Last of the palliata -- Native Italian comedy -- Roman tragedy after Ennius. Pacuvius -- Accius -- Chorus in Roman tragedy -- Praetextae -- Last of tragedy -- The satires of Lucilius and minor poetry. Lucilius -- Minor epic and didactic -- Elegiac epigram -- Laevius -- The progress of prose. History -- Oratory -- Literature of special sciences, learning and technical knowledge -- Lucretius, the poet of Epicureanism. Life -- Epicureanism -- Lucretius’s attitude to Epicurus -- Other sources -- Argument of the De Rerum Natura -- Lucretius’s science -- His philosophy -- His poetry -- His influence -- Comparison with Virgil -- The Alexandrine movement and Catullus. Literature of Alexandria -- Roman ‘Alexandrians’ -- Life of Catullus -- His poems and metres -- Their qualities -- Comparison with Lucretius and with Horace -- Catullus’s place among lyric poets -- His influence -- Varro and learning. Life and works of Varro -- Menippeae -- Antiquitates -- De Lingua Latina -- De Re Rustica -- Comparison with Cato and general assessment -- Influence -- Other scholars -- Jurists -- Cicero and oratory. Life of Cicero and chronology of his main works -- Cicero as a man -- Cicero’s poetry -- His oratory -- His letters -- Political treatises -- Rhetorical treatises -- Philosophical works -- Contemporary oratory -- Caesar and history. Caesar’s life -- His lost works -- The Cornmentarii -- The continuators -- Sallust’s life and works -- His qualities, sources, style, influence -- Cornelius Nepos -- Two mime-writers of the age, Laberius and Publilius -- Virgil. The Augustan age and patronage / Life of Virgil -- Early poems -- Eclogues -- Georgics -- Aeneid -- Patriotism and imperialism -- Tenderness -- Romance -- Symbolism and beauty -- Influence -- The minor poems attributed to Virgil. Contents of the Appendix -- Catalepton etc. -- Ciris -- Dirae and Lydia -- Copa -- Moretum -- Culex -- Aetna -- Horace. Life -- Epodes -- Satires -- Odes -- Epistles -- Ars Poetica -- Horace’s self- revelation -- A mirror of his times -- Truth to human nature -- Poetic qualities -- Love of rural nature -- Limitations and strength -- The elegiac poets. Greek and early Roman elegy -- Augustan elegists -- Gallus -- Tibullus -- The pseudo-Tibulliana -- Qualities of Tibullus -- Life of Propertius -- His works -- His love for ‘Cynthia’ -- Features of his poetry -- Life of Ovid -- Chronology of his works -- Amores -- Heroides -- Ars, Medicamina, Remedia -- Metamorphoses -- Fasti -- Poems of exile -- An estimate of Ovid -- His influence -- Minor Augustan poetry. The Augustan patrons -- Virgilian, Horatian, Tibullian and Ovidian groups -- Grattius -- Manilius -- Later didactic poetry -- Augustan prose and Livy. Oratory and rhetoric -- Philosophy and law -- Grammar and scholarship -- Verrius Flaccus -- Special sciences and Vitruvius -- Minor historians -- Livy’s life -- The Ab urbe condita libri -- Sources -- Science of the historian -- Art of the historian -- Livy’s fame -- An epilogue.