Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Introduction 1
4. CHAPTER ONE Son of a Sometime Slave 9
5. CHAPTER TWO Poets and Assassins 21
6. CHAPTER THREE Behind the Lines 37
7. CHAPTER FOUR War Poet 53
8. CHAPTER FIVE Connoisseur of the Concealed 65
9. CHAPTER SIX Out of Here! 79
10. CHAPTER SEVEN Hangers On 95
11. CHAPTER EIGHT Under Vesuvius 113
12. CHAPTER NINE Town and Country 123
13. CHAPTER TEN A Room of Mirrors 131
14. CHAPTER ELEVEN Treacherous Ground 149
15. CHAPTER TWELVE Odes and Eels 161
16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Horoscopes 175
17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Death of Vergil 191
18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Game Show 205
19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Poet on a Volcano 215
20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Captor and Captive 229
21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN On the Esquiline 235
22. CHAPTER NINETEEN Monumentum 239
23. CHAPTER TWENTY Words as Weapons 243
24. Three Poems 253
25. Chronology 261
26. Source Notes 263
27. Bibliography 293
28. Acknowledgments 299
29. Index 301