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| Detailed Table of Contents | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Literary History and Historiography | |
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| The Early and Middle Republics | |
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| The Origins | |
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| The Early Roman Theater | |
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| Livius Andronicus | |
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| Naevius | |
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| Plautus | |
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| Caecilius Statius | |
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| Oratory and Historiography in the Archaic Period | |
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| Literature and Culture in the Period of the Conquests | |
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| Ennius | |
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| Cato | |
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| Terence | |
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| The Development of Tragedy: Pacuvius and Accius | |
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| The Development of Epic Poetry: From Ennius to Virgil | |
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| Lucilius | |
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| Politics and Culture between the Era of the Gracchi and the Sullan Restoration | |
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| The Late Republic | |
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| The Age of Caesar (78-44 B.C.) | |
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| Neoteric Poetry and Catullus | |
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| Lucretius | |
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| Cicero | |
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| Philology, Biography, and Antiquarianism at the End of the Republic | |
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| Caesar | |
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| Sallust | |
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| The Age of Augustus | |
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| 43 BC.-A.D. 17: Characteristics of a Period | |
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| Virgil | |
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| Horace | |
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| Elegy: Tibullus and Propertius | |
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| Ovid | |
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| Livy | |
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| Directions in Historiography | |
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| Scholarship and Technical Disciplines | |
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| Legal Literature: From Its Beginnings to the Early Empire | |
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| The Early Empire | |
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| Culture and Spectacle: The Literature of the Early Empire | |
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| Seneca | |
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| The Poetic Genres in the Julio-Claudian Period | |
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| Lucan | |
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| Petronius | |
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| Satire under the Principate: Persius and Juvenal | |
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| Epic in the Flavian Period | |
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| Pliny the Elder and Specialist Knowledge | |
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| Martial and the Epigram | |
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| Quintilian | |
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| The Age of the Adoptive Emperors | |
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| Pliny the Younger | |
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| Tacitus | |
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| Suetonius and the Minor Historians | |
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| Apuleius | |
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| Philology, Rhetoric and Literary Criticism, Law | |
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| Developments in Poetry: The Poetae Novelli | |
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| The Late Empire | |
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| From the Severans to Diocletian (193-305) | |
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| From Constantine to the Sack of Rome (306-410) | |
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| The Apogee of Christian Culture | |
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| From Honorius to Odoacer (410-476) | |
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| The Dawn of the Middle Ages | |
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| App.1. Chronological Tables | |
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| App.2. Greek Authors and Texts | |
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| App.3. Roman Culture: Politics, Society, Ideology | |
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| App.4. Terms of Rhetoric, Metrics, and Literary Criticism | |
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| Index of Names | |