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LATIN LITERATURE, THE BODY OF WRITINGS IN
LATIN, PRIMARILY PRODUCED DURING THE
ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
WHEN LATIN WAS A SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of
the western medieval world until it was superseded by the
Romance languages it had generated and by other modern
languages.
After the Renaissance, the writing of Latin was
increasingly confined to the narrow limits of certain
ecclesiastical and academic publications.
Literature in Latin began as translation from the Greek, a
fact that conditioned its development. Latin authors used
earlier writers as sources of stock themes and motifs, at
their best using their relationship to tradition to produce
a new species of originality.
They were more distinguished as verbal artists than as
thinkers; the finest of them have a superb command of
concrete detail and vivid illustration.
Their noblest ideal was Humanitas, a blend of culture and
kindliness, approximating the quality of being “civilized”.
Tragedy
Epic and Epyllion
Didactic poetry
Satire
Iambic, Lyric, and Epigram
Elegy
Comedy
Rhetoric and Oratory
History
Biography and Letters
Philosophical and Learned writings Literary
criticism
Fiction
c. 185 BC
Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC,
create a Roman drama based on Greek originals
c. 160 BC
The Roman statesman Cato the Elder writes Origines
('Origins'), a history of Rome which survives only in
fragments
81 BC
Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes
his first appearance in a Roman court
37 BCVirgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues,
influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his
birth near Mantua
c. 34 BC
Maecenas buys a farm for Horace, in the Sabine hills near
Tivoli - the most fruitful of his many acts of patronage
27 BC
Livy begins writing and publishing his History of Rome, a
task which will occupy him for forty years
23 BC
The first three books of Horace's Odes are published,
written on his Sabine fa
c. 20 BC
The excellence of the arts, particularly literature, during
the reign of Augustus Caesar causes it to be remembered
as a golden age of culture
c. 20 BC
A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings
Ovid an early success
19 BC
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