Latin Literature

An etext of Latin Literature, by J. W. Mackail.

Books about Roman Satire, especially Roman verse satire written by Horace, Juvenal, Persius, but also including Menippean satire like the Satyricon, by Petronius.

A timeline showing the dates of the leading writers of the ancient language of the Romans.

Augustan Age literature was mostly poetic, with the exception of prose writer Livy.

Glossary entry on Pacuvius.

Information on Maecenas, the Augustan patron of Vergil and Horace, among others.

The word "vulgar" comes from a Latin word for "the crowd / common people." Vulgar Latin was what the people spoke. It was different from the Classical Latin we know from literature, but provides a bridge from the literary language to the modern Romance languages. Find out how we know about the language the people spoke.

An annotated timeline of drama in ancient Rome.

A series of essays on such popular Roman authors as Apuleius, Julius Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Livy, Suetonius, Tacitus, Lucretius, and Petronius.

Comedy, Classical, Christian, Technical, Prose, Histories, Astrology, by William Harris.

Timeline of the Golden Age of Latin Drama.

Glossary entry on Fescennine Verse.

Timeline of Latin Literature From Livius to the Death of Marcus Aurelius.

Ancient Greek posts wrote in a variety of styles that evolved over time. Here is a list of ancient Greek poets timeline during the archaic period divided according to genre of ancient Greek poetry.