I. Introduction

II. Virgil

1. Caesar, Virgil and Italy

2. War and Peace in the 'Georgics' and 'Eclogues'

3. The Causes of Political Disharmony

4. Virgil's 'Unpolitical' Outlook and his Acceptance of Augustus

5. Augustan Restoration and Roman Imperium

6. The End of the 'Aeneid'

III. Horace

1. Horace and the Ascent of Caesar

2. The Causes of Political Disharmony

3. The Restoration

4. Horace (and Virgil) and the Divine Man

5. The Divine Augustus and the Res Publica

6. Horace more Politic than Political

7. The Sincerity of Horace

8. Horace and Virgil

IV. Propertius

1. Individual and State

2. Man and Woman

3. Propertius, laudator temporis acti

4. The Augustan State, Love and War

5. The Relative Orthodoxy of Book 4

6. Propertius and Horace

V. Tibullus

1. Tibullus and Propertius

2. The 'Penetration of the Personal' in Tibullus' Poetry

3. Tibullus, Augustus and the 'Panegyricus Messallae'

4. Tibullus, Isis-Osiris, and Messalla

VI. Ovid

1. Ovidian Levity: The 'Amores'

2. Systematized Levity: The 'Ars Amatoria'

3. Ovid on Religion: The 'Fasti'

4. Politics and Morals in the 'Metamorphoses'

5. Ovid's Apologia: The 'Tristia' and 'Ex Ponto'

VII. Conclusion

1. General

2. Virgil

a) General

b) 'Eclogues'

c) 'Georgics'

d) 'Aeneid'

3. Horace

a) General

b) 'Odes'

c) 'Epodes', 'Satires', 'Carmen Saeculare', 'Epistles'

4. The Elegists

a) General

b) Propertius

c) Tibullus

d) Ovid