The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry Book

	Preface
	The Meters of Greek Poetry
1	Sigla	3
2	Metrics and Prosody	4
3	The Period	6
4	Caesura, Diaeresis, Bridge	8
5	The Hexameter	10
6	The Elegiac Couplet	12
7	The Iambic Trimeter	13
8	The Trochaic Tetrameter	15
9	Lyric Meters	16
10	Lyric Dactyls	17
11	Anapaests	20
12	Lyric Iambs and Trochees	21
13	Ionic Meters	23
14	Complex Lyric Meters	26
15	Epodes and Asynarteta	26
16	Aeolic Meters	29
17	Pindar and Bacchylides	34
18	Tragedy and Comedy	43
19	Dochmiacs	50
20	Post-Classical Developments	51
	The Meters of Latin Poetry
I	Sigla	61
II	Metrics and Prosody	62
III	The Period	66
IV	Caesura and Diaeresis	67
V	Spoken Verse: Dactylic Hexameter	67
VI	Spoken Verse: The Elegiac Couplet	71
VII	Spoken Verse: Iambic Meters	72
VIII	Spoken Verse: Trochaic Meters	77
IX	Lyric Poetry	79
X	Lyric Dactyls	81
XI	Anapaests	82
XII	Lyric Iambs, Trochees, Cretics, and Bacchiacs	84
XIII	Ionics and Choriambs	89
XIV	Combinations of Lyric Meters	93
XV	Epodes and Asynarteta	94
XVI	Aeolic Meters	97
XVII	Stichic and non-stichic Lyric Poetry	102
XVIII	The Odes of Horace	103
XIX	The Cantica of Plautus and Seneca	106
XX	Later Developments	114
	Glossary of Technical Terms	121
	List of Meters	129
	Index of Greek Authors Cited	133
	Index of Latin Authors Cited	135
	Abbreviations	138