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 CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

Inthoductiow 1

CHAPTER n

THE PASSING OF THE ANTIQUE MAN

Contrast between the classic and the mediasval character. 18

Distinctive Greek and Roman traits 19

Influence of Greece on Rome 22

The Greek-enlightened Roman 24

Later Greek types 26

Growth of emotion : Homer, the lyric and tragic poets, the Alexandrians, Virgil 27

The new pagan religiousness 29

Neo-platonism 30

The pagan climacteric 31

CHAPTER in

PHASES OF PAGAN DECADENCE

General decay and literary decline 83

Oratory, rhetoric, and grammar 34

Debased uses of Virgil 37

The romance of Alexander 38

The tale of Troy 40

The Greek love-romances 41