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Tables of Contents for Roman Literary Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
Toward a Social History of Latin Literature
1
1
Author, Audience, and Medium
2
9
Ennius and Cato, Two Early Writers
11
1
New Genres of Literature, from Lucilius to Apuleius
12
5
Generic Preoccupations
17
3
Rome at the End of the Republic
20
35
Roman Education, for Better or Worse
23
11
Literature and Nationalism
34
7
Literature and the Amateur
41
1
Literary Studies and the Recreation of Literary History
42
5
Literature and Scholarship, Caesar and Varro
47
8
The Coming of the Principate: ``Augustan'' Literary Culture
55
47
Two Survivors: The New Poets Gallus and Virgil
56
7
The Roman Poetry Book, a New Literary Form
63
4
Private and Public Patronage
67
7
The Emperor as Theme and Patron
74
2
The Best of Patrons, and the Patron's Greater Friend
76
8
Performance and Readership
84
6
Spoken and Written Prose in Augustan Society: Rhetoric as Training and Display
90
4
The First Real Histories
94
8
Un-Augustan Activities
102
24
The Literature of Youth
102
4
Love and Elegy
106
5
Ovid the Scapegoat, and the Sorrows of Augustus
111
5
Innocence and Power of the Book
116
10
An Inhibited Generation: Suppression and Survival
126
27
Permissible Literature: Prose
128
6
Moral Treatises and Letters
134
3
Didactic and Descriptive Poetry
137
3
The Scholar, the Gentleman, and the Pretender
140
1
The Tastes and Prejudices of Augustus's Imperial Successors
140
5
The Divergence of Theater and Drama
145
8
Between Nero and Domitian: The Challenge to Poetry
153
30
The Neronian Revival
153
9
Poetry and Parody in a New Setting
162
5
Vicissitudes of the Epic Muse
167
5
Professional Poets in the Time of Domitian
172
11
Literature and the Governing Classes: From the Accession of Vespasian to the Death of Trajan
183
39
Equestrian and Senatorial Writers, a Changing Elite
183
8
Choices of Literary Career: Fame or Survival?
191
9
Pliny's Letters and His Literary World
200
4
The Public World of the Senator and Orator
204
7
The World of the Auditorium
211
11
Literary Culture in Decline: The Antonine Years
222
43
Hadrian, the Philhellene
222
7
The Traveling Sophists
229
7
The Provinces and Latin Culture
236
3
Marcus Aurelius and His Teachers
239
7
Aulus Gellius, the Eternal Student in Rome and Greece
246
6
Apuleius, the Ultimate Word Artist
252
13
Notes
265
44
Bibliography
309
8
Index
317