Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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.) Table of contents 1 Early Latin literature 2 Golden Age 3 Silver Latin 4 Latin Literature in the Late Antique period 5 Mediæval and Christian Latin literature Early Latin literature Poetry Ennius Comedy Plautus Terence Golden Age Poetry Lucretius : On the Nature of Things Catullus Vergil : Aeneid Horace Ovid Tibullus Propertius Prose Julius Caesar : Gallic Wars Cicero : Catiline Orations Historiography Nepos Sallust Livy Silver Latin Poetry Manilius Lucan Statius Prose Petronius : Satyricon Pliny the Elder : Natural History Quintilian Pliny the Younger Aulus Gellius Apuleius Theater Seneca Satire Juvenal Martial Historiography Tacitus Suetonius Latin Literature in the Late Antique period Ammianus Marcellinus St Augustine of Hippo Ausonius Claudian Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius Paulinus of Nola Sidonius Apollinaris Sulpicius Severus Mediæval and Christian Latin literature Abelard 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 : Etymologiæ St Jerome : Vulgate Peter of Blois Petrarch Thomas of Celæno : Dies Iræ Walter of Châtillon See also: Mass (liturgy); Mass (music) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.