Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part I. Roman

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  Studies in the Poetry
      of Italy

      I. ROMAN

         BY

  FRANK JUSTUS MILLER

  _The University of Chicago_

    Chautauqua Press

  CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK
       MCMXIII

  COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY

  FRANK JUSTUS MILLER

  Third Edition, 1913

  The Chautauqua Print Shop

  Chautauqua, New York

PREFACE

The accumulated literature of centuries of ancient Roman life, even
after the loss of more works than have survived, is still so large that,
were we to attempt to cover the whole field, the space allotted to this
volume would suffice for only the most superficial mention of the extant
authors. The writer has therefore chosen to present to his readers the
field of poetry only, and to narrow the scope of his work still further
by the selection of certain important and representative phases of
poetry, namely, the dramatic, satiric, and epic.

These different phases of the Roman poetic product will be presented in
the order named, although it is by no means certain which class of
poetry was first developed at Rome. It is more than likely that satire
and comedy had a common origin in the rude and unrecorded literary
product of ancient Italy. Ennius, indeed, prior to whose time the extant
fragments are exceedingly meager, produced both drama, satire, and epic.
And the same is true, though to a more limited extent, of other writers
of the same early period.

Each of these phases of poetry is treated separately in this volume,
according to its chronological development. We shall, therefore,
traverse the field three times by three parallel paths: from Andronicus
to Seneca, from Ennius to Juvenal, and from Nævius to Vergil.

  F. J. Miller
  Chicago.

CONTENTS

BOOK I. ROMAN

PART I. THE DRAMA
                                                                    PAGE
  1. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMAN LITERATURE AND
     OLD ROMAN TRAGEDY                                                1

  2. LATER ROMAN TRAGEDY AND SENECA                                   8

  3. ROMAN COMEDY                                                    38

PART II. SATIRE

  1. INTRODUCTION AND EARLY SATIRE                                   70

  2. QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS                                        80

  3. AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS                                           99

  4. DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS                                       105

PART III. EPIC POETRY

  1. CN. NÆVIUS.--THE FIRST NATIONAL ROMAN EPIC                     119

  2. QUINTUS ENNIUS                                                 121

  3. PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO                                         128

STUDIES IN
THE POETRY OF ITALY

PART I

THE DRAMA