A history of Latin literature.
Publisher: Columbia U.P; OxfordU.P
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 474
Table of contents: title: The nature of Latin literature -- The beginnings -- Comedy and satire -- Pre-Ciceronian prose -- Lucretius and Catullus -- Caesar, Sallust, and others -- Cicero -- Vergil -- 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 -- Bibliographical notes -- Chronological table.