Ancient literature

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literature Antiquity Western is composed mainly of the literatures Greek and Roman. Indeed, Egyptians and them Hebrews wrote only functional or crowned texts. There does not exist either of literature Gallic, Celts from this time, for reasons of taboo monk mainly, having left only few texts.

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Literature in language Greek can be described as primitive : its authors indeed took as a starting point any preexistent written culture. Thus the Greeks conceived their accounts mythological (Iliade and The Odyssey ofHomère, Théogonie ofHésiode, etc.). One also must to the Greeks comedy, tragedy and the account history. Fiction romantic only one tiny share occupies there. philosophy and didactic literature (studies, treaties) hold also a dominating place.

It should be noted that, very mainly, it is in towards that the texts of fiction (in addition to the novel) are written, like certain didactic texts (except for the majority of the philosophical?uvres). One thus should not lose sight of the fact to only speak about poetry antique does not have any direction: it is not a kind in oneself. One will speak then about didactic poetry, lyric, mythological, etc.

The Romans mainly took as a starting point the the Greeks and one finds on their premises the same principal kinds.

Greek authors

Poetry

Theatre

  • Tragedy:
    • Eschyle
    • Sophocle
    • Euripide

Prose

History

Speakers

Philosophy and speculation metaphysics

Scientific works and of scholarship

Latin authors

Epic poetry

Tragedy

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Pline the Young person

Letters (Pline)

  • Cicéron
  • Letters with the familiar ones

History

  • Caton the Old one

Salluste

Commentarii rerum gestarum

Valère-Maxime

79Summary of the Roman History

Ammien Marcellin

Marcellus Vernier

See too
  • Related articles
    • Greek literature ;
    Latin literature
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