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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. Latin literature. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1895 (OCoLC)646965497 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J W Mackail |
| OCLC Number: | 310061 |
| Description: | ix, 289 p. 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. The republic -- Origins of Latin literature: early epic and tragedy -- Comedy: Plautus and Terence -- Early prose: the "Satura," or mixed mode -- Lucretius -- Lyric poetry : Catullus -- Cicero -- Prose of the Ciceronian age: Caesar and Sallust -- Part II. The Augustan age -- Virgil -- Horace -- Propertius and the Elegists -- Ovid -- Livy -- The lesser Augustans -- Part III. The empire -- The Rome of Nero: Seneca, Lucan, Petronius -- The silver age: Statius, the Elder Pliny, Martial, Quintilian -- Tacitus -- Juvenal, the younger Pliny, Suetonius: decay of classical Latin -- The "Elocutio Novella" -- Early Latin Christianity: Minucius Felix, Teetullian, Lactantius -- The fourth century: Ausonius and Claudian -- The beginnings of the middle ages. |
| Series Title: | The University series |
| Responsibility: | by J.W. Mackail ... |
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