The History of Roman Literature - From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

Charles Thomas Cruttwell

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Title: A History of Roman Literature From the
Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus AureliusAuthor: Charles Thomas Cruttwell
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
EBOOK A HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE ***
Produced by Anne Soulard, Tiffany Vergon and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team.A HISTORY OF ROMAN
LITERATURE: FROM THE
EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE
DEATH OF MARCUS AURELIUS
BY CHARLES THOMAS CRUTTWELL, M.A.TO THE VENERABLE J. A.
HESSEY, D.O.L ARCHDEACON
OF MIDDLESEX, THIS WORK IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY HIS FORMER PUPIL, THE
AUTHOR.PREFACE.
The present work is designed mainly for Students
at our Universities and Public Schools, and for
such as are preparing for the Indian Civil Service or
other advanced Examinations. The author hopes,
however, that it may also be acceptable to some of
those who, without being professed scholars, are
yet interested in the grand literature of Rome, or
who wish to refresh their memory on a subject that
perhaps engrossed their early attention, but which
the many calls of advancing life have made it
difficult to pursue.
All who intend to undertake a thorough study of the
subject will turn to Teuffel's admirable History,
without which many chapters in the present work
could not have attained completeness; but the rigid
severity of that exhaustive treatise makes it fitter
for a book of reference for scholars than for
general reading even among students. The author,
therefore, trusts he may be pardoned for
approaching the History of Roman Literature from
a more purely literary point of view, though at the
same time without sacrificing those minute and
accurate details without which criticism loses half
its value. The continual references to Teuffel's
work, excellently translated by Dr. W. Wagner, will
bear sufficient testimony to the estimation in which
the author holds it, and the obligations which he
here desires to acknowledge.He also begs to express his thanks to Mr. John
Wordsworth, of B. N. C., Oxford, for many kind
suggestions, as well as for courteous permission to
make use of his Fragments and Specimens of
Early Latin; to Mr. H. A. Redpath, of Queen's
College, Oxford, for much valuable assistance in
correction of the proofs, preparation of the index,
and collation of references, and to his brother, Mr.
W. H. G. Cruttwell, for verifying citations from the
post-Augustan poets.
To enumerate all the sources to which the present
Manual is indebted would occupy too much space
here, but a few of the more important may be
mentioned. Among German writers, Bernhardy and
Ritter—among French, Boissier, Champagny,
Diderot, and Nisard—have been chiefly used.
Among English scholars, the works of Dunlop,
Conington, Ellis, and Munro, have been consulted,
and also the History of Roman Literature, reprinted
from the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, a work to
which frequent reference is made, and which, in
fact, suggested the preparation of the present
volume.
It is hoped that the Chronological Tables, as well
as the list of Editions recommended for use, and
the Series of Test Questions appended, will
materially assist the Student.
OXFORD, November, 1877.CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Roman and Greek Literature have their periods of
study—Influence of each
—Exactness of Latin language—Greek origin of
Latin literature—Its three
great periods: (1) The Ante-Classical Period; (2)
The Golden Age; (3) The
Decline.
BOOK I
FROM LIVIUS ANDRONICUS TO SULLA (240-80
B.C.).
CHAPTER I.
On the Earliest Remains of the Latin Language.
Early inhabitants of Italy—Italic dialects—Latin—
Latin alphabet—Later innovations—Pronunciation
—Spelling—Early Monuments—Song of Fratres
Arvales—Salian Hymn—Law of Romulus—Laws of
Twelve Tables—Treaty between Rome and
Carthage—Columna Rastrata—Epitaphs of the
Scipios— Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus—
Break-up of the language.APPENDIX.—Examples of late corrupted dialects
CHAPTER II.
On the Beginnings of Roman Literature.
The Latin character—Romans a practical people—
Their religion unromantic —Primitive culture of
Latium—Germs of drama and epos—No early
historians—Early speeches—Ballad literature—No
early Roman epos—Poets despised
—Fescenninae—Saturae—Mime or
Planipes—Atellanae- Saturnian metre—Early
interest in politics and law as giving the germs of
oratory and jurisprudence.
CHAPTER III.
The Introduction of Greek Literature—Livius and
Naevius (240-204 B.C.).
Introduction of Greek literature to Rome—Its first
translators—Livius
Andronicus—His translation of the Odyssey,
Tragedies, &c.—Cn.
Naevius—Inventor of Praetextae—Style—A
politician—Writer of the
first national epic poem—His exile and death—
Cicero's opinion of him—
His epitaph.