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Roman literature

Archive Print Item: Thompson Collection 38/WIL

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Type of record: Book

Title: Roman literature

Level: Item

Classmark: Thompson Collection 38/WIL

Creator(s): Wilkins, Augustus S (1843-1905)

Publisher: Macmillan

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1898

Language: English

Size and medium: 130 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/331638

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002871069705181

Description

Part I: The growth of Roman literature, 250 B.C.-80 B.C.--1. Introduction--2 (a) The earliest poets; (b) The beginnings of Latin prose--3. Dramatic poetry and satire--Part II: The golden age of Roman literature, 80 B.C.-14 A.D.--1. Cicero--2. Prose of the time of Cicero--3. Poets of the time of Cicero--4. The age of Augustus: (a) Augustan poets; (b) Augustan prose--Part III: The decline of Roman literature--1. The Claudian period--2. The Flavian period--3. The reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

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