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Book II.

The Golden Age.
From the Consulship of Cicero to the Death of Augustus (63 B.C.-l4 A.D.).

Part I.

"The Republican Period".

Chapter I.

"Varro."

The two Divisions of this culminating period
Classical authors
Varro
His life, his character, his encyclopaedic mind
His "Menippean Satires"
"Logistorici"-"Antiquities Divine and Human"
"Imagines"
"De Lingua Latina"
"De Re Rustica".

Appendix.
Note I. The Menippean Satires of Varro,
" II.


The "Logistorici",
" III. Fragments of Atacinus,
" IV. The Jurists, Critics, and Grammarians of less note.

Chapter II.

"Oratory and Philosophy - Cicero" (106-43 B.C.).

Cicero
His life
"Pro Roscio"
"In Verrem"
"Pro Cluentio"
"Pro lege Manilia"
"Pro Rabirio"
Cicero and Clodius
His exile
"Pro Milone"
His "Philippics"
Criticism of his oratory
Analysis of "Pro Milone"
His Philosophy, moral and political
On the existence of God and the human soul
List of his philosophical works
His rhetorical works
His letters
His contemporaries and successors.

Appendix.
Poetry of M. and Q. Cicero.

Chapter III.

"Historical and Biographical Composition
Caesar
Nepos
Sallust."

Roman view of history
Caesar's "Commentaries"
Trustworthiness of his statements
His style
A. Hirtius
Other writers of commentaries
Caesar's oratorical and scientific position
Cornelius Nepos
C. Sallustius Crispus
Tubero.

Appendix.
On the "Acta Diurna" and "Acta Senatus".

Chapter IV.

"The History of Poetry to the Close of the Republic
Rise of Alexandrinism
Lucretius
Catullus."

The Drama
J. Caesar Strabo
The "Mimae"
D. Laberius
Publilius Syrus
Matius
Pantomimi
Actors
The poetry of Cicero and Caesar
Alexandria and its writers
Aratus
Callimachus
Apollonius Rhodius
Euphorion
Lucretius
His philosophical opinions and style
Bibaculus
Varro Atacinus
Calvus
Catullus
Lesbia.

Appendix.
Note I. On the Use of Alliteration in Latin Poetry,
" II. Some additional details on the History of the "Mimus",
" III. Fragments of Valerius Soranus.

Part II.

"The Augustan Epoch" (42 B.C.-l4 A.D.).

Chapter I.

"General Characteristics."

Common features of the Augustan authors
Augustus's relation to them
Maecenas
The Apotheosis of the emperor
Rhetoricians not orators
Historians
Jurists
Poets
Messala
Varius
Anser
Macer.

Chapter II.

"Virgil" (70-19 B.C.)

Virgil
His earliest verses
His life and character
The minor poems
The "Eclogues"
The "Georgics"
Virgil's love of Nature
His aptitude for epic poetry
The scope of the "Aeneid"
The "Aeneid" a religious poem
Its relation to preceding poetry.

Appendix.
Note I. Imitations of Virgil in Propertius, Ovid, and
Manilius,
" II. On the shortening of final o in Latin poetry,
" III. On parallelism in Virgil's poetry,
" IV. On the Legends connected with Virgil.

Chapter III.

"Horace" (65-8 B.C.).

Horace
His life
The dates of his works
Two aspects: a lyric poet and a man of the world
His "Odes" and "Epodes"
His patriotic odes
Excellences of the odes
The "Satires" and "Epistles"
Horace as a moralist
The "Ars Poetica"
Horace's literary criticism
Lesser poets.

Chapter IV.

"The Elegiac Poets
Gratius
Manilius."

Roman elegy
Cornelius Callus
Domitius Marsus
Tibullus
Propertius
Ovid
His life
"The Art of Love"
His exile
Doubtful and spurious poems
Lesser erotic and epic poets
Gratius
Manilius.

Chapter V.

"Prose Writers of the Augustan Age."

Oratory Neglected
Declamation takes its place
Porcius Latro
Annaeus Seneca
History
Livy
Opportune appearance of his work
Criticism of his method
Pompeius Trogus
Vitruvius
Grammarians
Fenestella
Verrius Flaccus
Hyginus
Law and philosophy.

Appendix.
Note I. A "Suasoria" translated from Seneca,
II. Some Observations on the Theory of Rhetoric, from
Quintilian, Book III.