Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-336) and index. Includes index.
Contents:
Romans and Greeks: a closer acquaintanceship -- Rome and the Italian background -- Patterns of intellectual life -- Greek writers and their readers -- Intellectuals in Rome I -- Intellectuals in Rome II -- Towqards public patronage -- Grammatica: the study of language -- Dialectica -- Rhetoric -- The mathematical arts -- Medicine -- Architecture and allied subjects -- Law -- Historiography and allied subjects -- Antiquarianism -- Geography and ethnography -- Grammatica: 'the part dealing with writers' -- Philosophy -- Theology and the arts of divination.
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