Introduction: The Grandeur That Was Rome
Chapter 1. Plautus and Roman Comedy
Chapter 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Good Citizen
Chapter 3. Lucretius and the Poetry of Nature
Chapter 4. Virgil-Poet of Shadows
Chapter 5. Horace-Odes to a Poet
Chapter 6. Ovid-Poet of Love and Change
Chapter 7. Seneca as Tragedian
Chapter 8. Plutarch and the Invention of Biography
Chapter 9. Tacitus and the Roman Historians
Chapter 10. The Emperor and the Slave
Suggestions for Further Reading