Bender's History of Roman Literature, First Period

Outline of Roman Literature*

First Period
—to 240 B.C.

Second Period
—240 B.C. to 70 B.C.

Third Period
—70 B.C. to 14 A.D.

Fourth Period
—14 A.D. to 117 A.D.

Fifth Period
—after 117 A.D.

First Period

to 240 B.C.

POETRY

PROSE

Drama

Epos

Lyric Poetry

History

Oratory

Jurisprudence

Form: versus Saturnius

Fescennini

Satura (in the oldest sense)

Songs on historical subjects
Neniæ
Carmina Triumphalia

Epitaphs

Carmen Arvalium
Carmen Saliari
and other sacred songs

Earliest Treaties

Comentarii and libri magistratuum
Fasti
Annales pontificum
Private chronicals
laudationem funebres

Ap. Claudius Caecus

Leges regiae
Commentarii regum
Libri pontificum
Fasti
Leges XII tabularum
Ius Flavianum

* all tables from: A Brief History of Roman Literature by Hermann Bender and translated by EP Crowell & HB Richardson;(Boston: Ginn & Heath, 1988), pp 138—145.

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