Chapter II: Introduction: Chapter

I. PROLOGUE 1

II. ROMAN EDUCATION UNDER THE EMPIRE 23

LITERATURE UNDER TIBERIUS, CALIGULA
AND CLAUDIUS, A.D. 14–A.D. 54

I. THE ELDER SENECA: ORATORS AND RHETORICIANS 42

II. VALERIUS MAXIMUS: A REPERTORY FOR SPEAKERS 65

III. VELLEIUS: CURTIUS: HISTORY 82

IV. CELSUS: MELA: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING 114

V. PHAEDRUS AND FABLE: POETRY OF THE TIME 133

LITERATURE OF THE NERONIAN PERIOD,
A.D. 54–A.D. 68

I. COLUMELLA AND AGRICULTURE 160

II. PETRONIUS: NOVELIST AND POET 169

III. SENECA THE PHILOSOPHER: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING 196

IV. SENECAN SATIRE AND POETRY: DRAMA OF THE AGE 237

V. PERSIUS: STOIC SATIRE 279

VI. LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC 296

VII. CALPURNIUS SICULUS AND MINOR POETRY OF THE NERONIAN AGE 330

LITERATURE OF THE FLAVIAN PERIOD,
A.D. 69–A.D. 96

I. THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY 347

II. QUINTILIAN: DECLAMATIONS AND ORATORS 387

III. FRONTINUS AND TECHNICAL WRITERS 422

IV. VALERIUS FLACCUS 433

V. SILIUS ITALICUS 452

VI. STATIUS 467

VII. MARTIAL AND MINOR FLAVIAN POETRY 498

LITERATURE UNDER NERVA AND TRAJAN,
A.D. 96–A.D. 117

I. PLINY THE YOUNGER AND MINOR CONTEMPORARIES 531

II. TACITUS 559

III. JUVENAL 599

LITERATURE IN THE REIGN OF HADRIAN,
A.D. 117–A.D. 138

SUETONIUS AND FLORUS 628

CONCLUSION

AN EPILOGUE—THE SECOND CENTURY AND AFTER 650

INDEX 659