S

Sallust, 51, 82–83

satire, invention of, 41

Scipio Aemilianus, 41

Scipio Africanus, 41

Seneca

Euripides compared to, 156–160

influence, 143, 160

Rome, his depiction of, 162–163, 170–171, 174–175

Shakespeare

borrowings from Plautus, 20–21, 48

Catullus compared to, 94–95

slavery, 20, 37–38, 66, 74, 125, 174

Socrates, 172

spectacles

Augustus vs. Caesar as spectators, 85

Cicero on, 66–67

during Domitian's reign, 170

drama compared to, 38, 127–128

gladiatorial contests, 124–125, 173–174

Roman fondness for, 130–131

as soporifics, 58

Stoicism/Stoics, 67, 161, 162

equality of all by nature, 174

equality of the sexes, 173

religion and, 170–174

Sulla, 87

T

Tacitus

life, 167

Rome, his depiction of, 162–163, 167–170

Terence, 14, 15

domestic drama, cofounder, 19–20

domestic dramas, his, 27–28, 32, 37

a mirror of his times, 15

novels, germ is his comedies, 48

Plautus compared to, 40–49

preacher, 116

theatre. See drama

Tiberius, 168

Trojan Women, Euripides compared to Seneca, 156–160

V

Virgil

Æneid, 142, 144, 146–152

Eclogues, 144

Georgics, 144–146

Homer compared to, 146–152

Horace, journey with, 123

influence, 30, 142–143, 143

life, 144

W

war, 52, 129

wealth, 119–122

women

chastity, 33–34

double standard, 32–33

exaltation of, 36

the fallen woman invented, 149–150

festival of the Good Goddess, 54

hen-pecked husbands, 29–30

Juvenal's satires of, 165–166

the Mother invented, 27

Stoics' view, 173

writing. See Roman literature

Z

Zeno, 171