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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
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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
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