The History of Roman Literature Part 38

LUCAN. C. F. Weber. Lips. 1821. C. H. Weisse. Lips. 1835.

PETRONIUS. Bucheler. Berl. 1871. Second edition.

CALPURNIUS. Glaeser. Gottingen. 1842, ETNA. Munro. Cambridge. 1867.

PLINY. Sillig. Lips. 8 vols.

----- Chrestomathia Pliniana, a useful text-book by Urlichs. Berlin. 1857.

VALERIUS FLACCUS. Lemaire. Paris. 1824. Schenkl. 1871.

SILIUS. Ruperti. Gottingen. 1795.

STATIUS. Silvae. Markland. Lips. 1827.

----- Entire works. Queck. 1854.

----- Thebaid and Achilleid. Vol. I. 0. Muller. Lips. 1871.

MARTIAL. Schneidevin. 1842.

----- Select Epigrams. Paley. London. 1875.

QUINTILIAN. Bonnell. (Teubner.) 1861.

----- Halm. 2 vols. 1869.

----- Lexicon to, by Bonnell. 1834.

FRONTINUS. Text by Dederich, in Teubner edition. 1855.

JUVENAL. Heinrich. Bonn. 1839. Mayor. London. 1872. Vol. I. (for schools).

Otto Iahn. 1868.

TACITUS. Works. Orelli. 1846. Ritter. 1864.

----- Dialogue. Ritter. Bonn. 1836.

----- Agricola. Kritz. Berlin. 1865.

----- Germania. Kritz. Berlin. 1869. Latham. London. 1851.

----- Annales. Nipperdey. Berlin. 1864.

PLINY the younger. Keil. Lips. 1870.

----- Letters. G. E. Gierig. 2 vols. 1800-2.

----- Letters and Panegyric. Gierig. 1806.

SUETONIUS. Roth. Teubner. 1858.

----- Praeter Caesarum Libros. D. Reifferscheid. Lips. 1860.

FLORUS. Jahn. Lips. 1856.

FRONTO. Niebuhr. Berl. 1816. Supplement. 1832. S. A. Naber. (Teubner.) 1867.

PERVIGILIUM VENERIS. Bugheler. 1859. Riese's Anthologia Latina i. p. 144.

GELLIUS. Hertz. Lips. 1853.

GAIUS. Lachmann. Berlin. 1842.

----- Inst.i.tutes. Poste. Oxf. 1871.

APULEIUS. Hildebrand. Lips. 1842. 2 vols.

ITINERARIUM ANTONINI AUGUSTI ET HIEROSOLYMITANUM. G. Parthey and M.

Finder. Berlin. 1848.

QUESTIONS OR SUBJECTS FOR ESSAYS SUGGESTED BY THE HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE. [8]

1. Trace the influence of conquest on Roman literature.

2. Examine Niebuhr's hypothesis of an old Roman epos.

3. Compare the Roman conception of law as manifested in an argument of Cicero, with that of the Athenians, as displayed in any of the great Attic orators.

4. Trace the causes of the special devotion to poetry during the Augustan Age.

5. The love of nature in Roman poetry.

6. What were the _Collegia poetarum?_ In what connection are they mentioned?

7. What methods of appraising literary work existed at Rome? Was there anything a.n.a.logous to our review system? If so, how did it differ at different epochs?

8. Sketch the development of the _Mime_, and account for its decline.

9. Criticise the merits and defects of the various forms which historical composition a.s.sumed at Rome (Hegel, _Philos. of History, Preface_).

10. "_Inveni lateritiam: reliqui marmoream_" (Augustus). The material splendour of imperial Rome as affecting literary genius. (Contrast the Speech of Pericles. Thuc. ii. 37, _sqq._)

11. _Varro dicit Musas Plautino sermone locuturas fuisse, si Latine loqui vellent_ (Quintil.). Can this encomium be justified? If so, show how.

12. "_Cetera quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes._" Is the true end of poetry to occupy a vacant hour? Ill.u.s.trate by the chief Roman poets.

13. The vitality of Greek mythology in Latin and in modern poetry.

14. State succinctly the debt of Roman thought, in all its branches, to Greece.

15. What is the permanent contribution to human progress given by Latin literature?

16. Criticise Mommsen's remark, that the drama is, after all, the form of literature for which the Romans were best adapted.

17. Form some estimate of the historical value of the old annalists.

18. What sources of information were at Livy's command in writing his history? Did he rightly appreciate their relative value?

19. What influence did the old Roman system have in repressing poetical ideas?

20. In what sense is it true that the intellectual progress of a nation is measured by its prose writers?

21. Philosophy and poetry set before themselves the same problem.

Ill.u.s.trate from Roman literature.

22. Account for the notable deficiency in lyric inspiration among Roman poets.

23. Compare the influence on thought and action of the elder and younger Cato.

24. Examine the alleged incapacity of the Romans for speculative thought.

25. Compare or contrast the Italic, the Etruscan, the Greek, and the Vedic religions, as bearing on thought and literature.

26. Compare the circ.u.mstances of the diffusion of Greek and Latin beyond the limits within which they were originally spoken.

27. a.n.a.lyse the various influences under which the poetical vocabulary of Latin was formed.

28. Give the rules of the Latin accent, and show how it has affected Latin Prosody. Is there any reason for thinking that it was once subjected to different rules?