Latin literature
Ancient Roman texts
Latin literature is writing produced in Latin, spanning from ancient Rome through the medieval period and into early modern scholarship.
The classical canon includes Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, and other authors studied for their influence on Western literary traditions.
She specialized in Latin literature of the Silver Age.
The term usually refers to works from antiquity unless otherwise specified.
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
- CiceroAncient Rome's greatest speaker
- et tu BruteLatin accusation of betrayal
- TacitusRoman senator and historian
- satireMockery exposing vice
Augustan age · golden age · epic poetry · classical antiquity · love poetry · Horace · carpe diem · Aeneid · Roman Republic · hexameter · Vergil · ode · rhetoric · prose style · dead language · Lucretius · Livy · ancient manuscripts
Latin literatureoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
oral poetry · folk songs · folk song · storytelling tradition · visual art
Latin literaturemodern literature
Recent centuries' written works
contemporary literature · postmodern literature · English literature · American literature
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