Part II
THE AUGUSTAN EPOCH (42 B.C.-l4 A.D.).
Chapter I General Characteristics
Common features of the Augustan authors—Augustus’s relation to them —Maecenas—The Apotheosis of the emperor—Rhetoricians not orators— Historians—Jurists—Poets—Messala—Varius—Anser—Macer.
Chapter II
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Virgil—His earliest verses—His life and character—The minor poems —The Eclogues—The Georgics—Virgil’s love of Nature—His aptitude for epic poetry—The scope of the Aeneid—The Aeneid a religious poem —Its relation to preceding poetry.
APPENDIX.—Note I. Imitations of Virgil in Propertius, Ovid, and
Manilius,
" II. On the shortening of final o in Latin poetry,
" III. On parallelism in Virgil’s poetry,
" IV. On the Legends connected with Virgil.