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A literary history of Rome in the Silver AgeJ. Wight Duff

A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age, by J. Wight Duff. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #79117.

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63 Chapters

  1. 1.Front Matter1,622 words
  2. 2.Introduction: Chapter167 words
  3. 3.Prologue7,444 words
  4. 4.Chapter II: Roman Education Under the Empire5,622 words
  5. 5.Chapter I: The Elder Seneca: Orators and Rhetoricians7,562 words
  6. 6.Chapter II: Valerius Maximus—a Repertory for Speakers625 words
  7. 7.Book IX: Luxury and lust, cruelty, anger and hatred, avarice,3,970 words
  8. 8.Chapter III: Velleius, Curtius and History10,152 words
  9. 9.Chapter IV: Celsus: Mela: Miscellaneous Learning5,559 words
  10. 10.Chapter V: Phaedrus and Fable: Poetry of the Time7,103 words
  11. 11.Chapter I: Columella and Agriculture2,501 words
  12. 12.Chapter II: Petronius: Novelist and Poet8,483 words
  13. 13.Chapter III: Seneca the Philosopher: Miscellaneous Learning8,010 words
  14. 14.Book V: asks “Is it a shame to be surpassed in benefits?” then takes up462 words
  15. 15.Book II: he gives his threefold division of the knowledge of nature into5,442 words
  16. 16.Chapter IV: Senecan Satire and Poetry: Drama of the Age (1)8,770 words
  17. 17.Chapter IV: Senecan Satire and Poetry: Drama of the Age (2)4,052 words
  18. 18.Chapter V: Persius: Stoic Satire4,813 words
  19. 19.Chapter VI: Lucan: Historical Epic1,616 words
  20. 20.Book I: , though in many respects powerful, might have had more epic force,1,020 words
  21. 21.Book III: , mainly concerned with Caesar’s doings on his return to Rome1,323 words
  22. 22.Book VII: is not free from turgidity and extravagance, but it is the1,668 words
  23. 23.Book X: , on Caesar in Egypt, would fit better into an epic on the mighty4,454 words
  24. 24.Chapter VII: Calpurnius Siculus and Minor Poetry of the Neronian Age4,765 words
  25. 25.Chapter I: The Elder Pliny: Flavian Science and History (1)8,869 words
  26. 26.Chapter I: The Elder Pliny: Flavian Science and History (2)3,749 words
  27. 27.Chapter II: Quintilian: Declamations and Orators11,489 words
  28. 28.Chapter III: Frontinus and Technical Writers2,658 words
  29. 29.Book IV: are explained away by Wölfflin as conscious imitation on the271 words
  30. 30.Chapter IV: Valerius Flaccus3,328 words
  31. 31.Book VIII: Only one course is now open to Medea. In terror at her own2,421 words
  32. 32.Chapter V: Silius Italicus1,297 words
  1. 33.Book VI: is largely devoted to the story of Regulus taken from the first308 words
  2. 34.Book VIII: forms a prelude to the battle of Cannae, as related in the two723 words
  3. 35.Book XIII: , the longest book (895 lines), contains, besides digressions,1,945 words
  4. 36.Chapter VI: Statius1,573 words
  5. 37.Book I: Statius makes a dull start with frigid professions of ignorance219 words
  6. 38.Book II: The woes of an accursed house work even beyond the grave. The223 words
  7. 39.Book III: At the news there is sorrow in Thebes. To stir up Argos,196 words
  8. 40.Book IV: King Adrastus decides on war in the third spring after Polynices425 words
  9. 41.Book VII: Jupiter is vexed that the Argives should delay the war by366 words
  10. 42.Book VIII: Excitement reigns in the lower world over the sudden descent189 words
  11. 43.Book IX: is mainly concerned with the valiancy of two heroes, Hippomedon122 words
  12. 44.Book X: Theban troops, inspirited by Eteocles’s harangue, plan to65 words
  13. 45.Book XI: Goaded by Tisiphone, Polynices challenges Eteocles to single184 words
  14. 46.Book XII: opens with funeral honours for the Theban dead. A report of2,095 words
  15. 47.Book I: Statius is not at his best in the opening poem, on the915 words
  16. 48.Book III: opens with a record of the dedication of a temple to Hercules by742 words
  17. 49.Book V: begins with the commemorative poem consoling Abascantus in his1,483 words
  18. 50.Book VI: , in connexion with the games, and well over twenty in many of367 words
  19. 51.Chapter VII: Martial and Minor Flavian Poetry2,376 words
  20. 52.Book VIII: he pretends to hesitate over multiplying epigrams—five books,7,319 words
  21. 53.Chapter I: Pliny the Younger and Minor Contemporaries9,040 words
  22. 54.Chapter II: Tacitus (1)8,719 words
  23. 55.Chapter II: Tacitus (2)4,064 words
  24. 56.Chapter III: Juvenal (1)8,810 words
  25. 57.Chapter III: Juvenal (2)6,941 words
  26. 58.Conclusion: An Epilogue—the Second Century and After10,948 words
  27. 59.Book III: of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue (1)8,297 words
  28. 60.Book III: of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue (2)8,399 words
  29. 61.Book III: of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue (3)8,320 words
  30. 62.Book III: of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue (4)7,539 words
  31. 63.Book III: of the second part of the prologue (ll. 33-63) to the epilogue (5)4,039 words