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This volume covers the first and second centuries AD, the 'Silver' Age of Latin literature. It offers a detailed portrait of the literary interests of an age that was of necessity becoming increasingly conscious of the past and of the problems of coping with its cultural heritage.

This volume covers the epic tradition, the didactic poems of Hesiod and his imitators, and the wide-ranging work of the iambic, elegiac and lyric poets of what is loosely called the archaic age. The contributors make use of recent papyrus finds to fill out the picture of a cosmopolitan and highly sophisticated literary culture which had not yet found its intellectual centre in Athens.

This volume covers the first three-quarters of the first century BC; an age which had enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. The scene was dominated by two figures: Cicero and Catallus. This book shows how these and other Roman writers helped transform their traditional Greek models into new, vigorous Latin forms.

This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory.

This volume in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature studies the revolutionary movement represented by the more creative of the Hellenistic poets, and finally the very rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period, with rhetoric and the novel contributing a distinctive flavour to the culture of the time.

The chapters in this volume describe and analyse the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature and laid the foundations for its future development as one of the great literatures of the world.

This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part IV. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.

This is a masterly and comprehensive survey of classical literature from about AD 250 to 450. It is mostly concerned with pagan literature, but takes into account Christian texts written in classical forms and directed at classically educated readers.