Latin Literature
The
literature
of the
Roman Republic
and the
Roman Empire
written in the
Latin language
. The periods of
Latin literature
are conventionally divided into "Golden" Latin, or
Golden Age
, which covers approximately the period from the start of the
first century BC
up to the mid-
first century AD
, and
Silver Latin
, which covers the remainder of the Classical period. Anything after the mid-second century comes under the blanket description of "late" Latin literature, and tends to be studied for the light it sheds on the development of Latin into the
Romance languages
rather than for its literary merit (though there are exceptions, eg.
Augustine of Hippo
.)
Early Latin literature
Poetry
Ennius
Comedy
Plautus
Terence
Golden Age
Poetry
Lucretius
:
On the Nature of Things
Catullus
Vergil
:
Aeneid
Horace
Ovid
:
Metamorphoses
Tibullus
Propertius
Prose
Julius Caesar
:
Gallic Wars
Cicero
:
Catiline Orations
Historiography
Nepos
Sallust
Livy
Silver Latin
Poetry
Manilius
Lucan
Persius
Statius
Prose
Petronius
:
Satyricon
Pliny the Elder
:
Natural History
Quintilian
Pliny the Younger
Aulus Gellius
Apuleius
Asconius
Theater
Seneca
Satire
Juvenal
Martial
Historiography
Tacitus
Suetonius
Latin Literature in the Late Antique period
Ammianus Marcellinus
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Ausonius
Boethius
and
Consolation of Philosophy
Distichs of Cato
Claudian
Eutropius
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
Paulinus of Nola
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sulpicius Severus
Medival and Christian Latin literature
Pierre Ablard
Aetheria
Albertus Magnus
St
Thomas Aquinas
:
Pange Lingua
:
Summa Theologica
The
Archpoet
Bede
Carmina Burana
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Gildas
Goliards
Gregory of Tours
Hiberno-Latin
St
Isidore of Seville
:
Etymologi
St
Jerome
:
Vulgate
Peter of Blois
Petrarch
Thomas of Celno
:
Dies Ir
Venantius Fortunatus
Walter of Chtillon
See also
Loeb Classical Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library
Mass (liturgy)
Mass (music)
External links
Classical Latin Texts
Latin Authors on the Web
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