Literature improvement

[JimmyPaolini]

Early

• Livius Andronicus - translated Odyssey
• Gnaeus Naevius - epic poem about First Punic War
• Quintus Ennius - wrote Annals, about Roman history. Adopted Greek dactylic hexameter
• Marcus Pacuvius, Lucius Accius (Fragments)
• Plautus - wrote 20 comedies
• Terence - wrote 6 comedies
• Cato - wrote On Agriculture
• Gaius Lucilius - poetry in Satires, easy conversational tone

Golden Age

• Virgil
• Caesar
• Augustus
• Ovid
• Cicero
• Catullus
• Sallust - historical writer
• Lucretius - De Rerum Natura about epicurean philosophy
• Marcus Terentius Varro - various subjects, some fragments some whole
• Horace - Epodes, Odes (very notable), Satires, Epistles
• Tibullus, Propertius - elegy, contemporary to Ovid
• Livy - prose history of Rome

Imperial Period

• Seneca - stoic philosopher
• Lucan - poet, wrote Pharsalia about Caesar/Pompey civil war
• Petronius - Satyricon, first picaresque Latin novel (only fragments)
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus - Argonautica, about Jason/Golden Fleece
• Statius - Thebaid, about Oedipus
• Silius Italicus - Punica, about Second Punic War (Hannibal)
• Martial - epigram writer
• Juvenal - satire writer
• Tacitus - historian, wrote Histories and Annals
• Suetonius - biographer of Roman rulers Caesar through Domitian
• Pliny Minor - letters about Roman life
• Aulus Gellius - wrote Attic Nights, anecddotes an literary discussions among friends
• Marcus Cornelius Fronto - orator who wrote letters to Marcus Aurelius
• Apuuleius - wrote his Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), about a young man who's turned into a donkey

Middle Ages, Neo Latin

• Ammianus Marcellinus - wrote history
• Quintus Aurelius Symmachus - orator
• Ausonius - poet, wrote Mosella which has a modern feeling to it
• Rutilius Claudius Namatianus - poet
• Descartes
• Francis Bacon
• Baruch Spinoza
• Swedenborg
• Linnaeus
• Euler
• Gauss
• Newton
• Milton
• Thomas Campion
• George Herbert
• Andrew Marvell
• Anthony Alsopp, Vincent Bourne - noted for pure Classical style
• Raphael Landivar - Rusticatio Mexicana

Christian

• Vulgate Bible
• Augustine of Hippo
• Jerome
• Ambrose
• Prudentius - first great Christian poet