Tag Archives: Latin literature
Latin literature I Posted by leire on Feb 28, 2012
Literature is one of the great achievements of the classical world, and it still survives with great vigor. Giving the written word an aesthetic value is something that had happened before, but not with the intensity and importance that it acquired during classical antiquity. A crucial aspect of the character of the Roman world was…
De origine latinae linguae (About the origin of Latin) Posted by leire on Dec 15, 2011
Before returning to the lessons on grammar, syntax and purely linguistic subjects, let’s place Latin language’s origin on it’s geographical and historical context. A few tens of kilometers from the mouth of the Tiber River was a region of marshy plains and hills sparsely populated in prehistoric times. Is the region of Rome and since…
Early Latin Literature Posted by kunthra on Oct 30, 2009
Hopefully I can get people to read some early Latin literature. Here are some authors that may interest you. Lucius Livius Andronicus was a dramatist and poet. He was actually a slave that became a libertus (freedman). He later founded his own school. Quintus Ennius is considered the father of Latin poetry. He believe that the…