The Littérature of the Western Antiquité is composed mainly of the literatures Greek and Roman. Indeed, the Egyptian and the Hebrew wrote only functional or crowned texts. There does not exist either of literature Gaulois E, the Celte S of this time, for reasons of Tabou religious mainly, having left only few texts.
Analyzes
The literature in Greek language can be described as primitive : its authors indeed took as a starting point any preexistent written culture. Thus the Greeks conceived their mythological accounts ( Iliade and the Odyssey of Homère, Théogonie of Hésiode, etc). One also owes to the Greeks the Comédie, the Tragédie and the historical account . The fiction Romance esque occupies only one tiny share there. The Philosophy and the 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 philosophical works). One thus should not lose sight of the fact that to speak about ancient poetry no direction has: it is not a kind in oneself. One will then speak about didactic Poésie , lyric , mythological , etc
The Romans mainly took as a starting point the Greeks and one finds the same principal kinds on their premises.
Greek authors
Poetry
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epic Poetry:
- Homère
- Iliade and the Odyssey
- Homeric Anthems
- Hésiode
- Work and the Days
- Apollonios of Rhodos
-
lyric and didactic Poetry:
- Hésiode
- Callinos d' Éphèse (gr.)
- Théognis de Mégare
- Solon
- the Exhortations
- Tyrtée
- Archiloque de Paros
- Hipponax d' Éphèse
- Simonide de Samos
- Satire against the women
- Ésope
- Alcée de Mytilène
- Sappho
- Anacréon
- Stésichore
- Arion of Méthymne
- Corinne
- Pindare
- collection of triumphal Odes or épinicie S
- Bacchylide
- Timothée de Milet
- Callimaque de Cyrène
- Théocrite
- Aratos de Soles
- Nicandre de Colophon
Theater
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Comedy:
Prose
-
Romance Greek
- Aristide of Millet
- Fables milésiennes
- Achilles Tatius
- Loves of Leucippe and Clitophon
- Chariton
- Adventures of Chaeréas and Callirhoé
- Longus
- pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloé
- Héliodore d' Émèse
- Éthiopiques
- Xénophon d' Éphèse
- Éphésiaques
- Philostrate
- Life of Apollonius de Tyane
- Author anonymous
- Recognitions
History
-
Hérodote of Halicarnasse
- Stories (with the direction first of investigations )
- Thucydide
- Xénophon
- Hellenic the
- Memorable the
- Anabase
- Hiéronymos of Cardia
- Timée de Tauroménion or of Syracuse
- Polybe
- Diodore of Sicily
- Denys d' Halicarnasse
- Flavius Josèphe
- Plutarque
- Arrien of Nicomédie
- Appien of Alexandria
- Pausanias
- Cassius Dion
- Hérodien
- Dexipe
- Éphore de Cumes
- Théopompe of Tap-holes
- Zozime
- Eunape of Sardinians
- Énee Tactitien
Speakers
- Lysias
- Andocide
- Isée
- Isocrate
- Lycurgue
- Démosthène
- Philippiques
- Olynthiennes
- On the crown
- Eschine
- Démétrios de Phalère
Philosophy and Metaphysical speculation
- Présocratiques
- Thalès de Milet
- Anaximandre
- Anaximène
- Anaxagore of Clazomènes
- Héraclite d' Éphèse
- Empédocle of Agrigente
- Parménide
- Zénon of Elée
- Socrate
- Plato
- Aristote
- Anaxagore
- Démocrite
- Épicure
- Dion Chrysostome
- Epictète
- Marc-Aurèle
- Sextus Empiricus
- Diogène Laërce
- Plotin and Porphyry of Tyr
Scientific works and of scholarship
- Aristarque de Samothrace
- Aristophane de Byzance
- Zénodote
- Denys of Thrace
- Ératosthène
- Hippocrates
- Pythagore
- Euclide
- Archimedes
- Ptolémée
- Galien
- Pausanias
- Description of Economic Greece
- Xénophon
Latin authors
Epic poetry
Lyric poetry
- Virgile
- poetic Horace
- Ovide
- the Art to like
- the Records
- the Sad Metamorphoses
- Catulle
- Tibulle
- Properce
- Prudence (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens)
Philosophical poetry
- Lucrèce
- Of will natura rerum
Satirical poetry
the epigram:
Theater
Prose
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Romance:
- Pétrone
- the Satyricon
- Apulée
- the Ass of gold (or the Metamorphoses )
-
epistolary Literature:
- Pediment
- Pline the Young person
- Letters (Pline)
- Cicéron
- Letters with familiar the
History
- Caton Old the
- Salluste
- Conspiracy of Catilina
- War of Jugurtha
- Stories (lost work)
- Jules César
- Commentarii rerum gestarum (known as more commonly War of Gaules )
- Cornélius Népos
- Tite-Live
- Velleius Paterculus
- Tacit Valère-Maxime
- Fifth-Curce
- Pline the Young person (for a small share of its mainly epistolary work)
- Two of his Lettres report the events which have occurred at the time of the eruption of the Vesuvius of 79
- Suétone
- Vies of the twelve Césars
- Florus
- Justin
- Lactance
- Eutrope
- Abrégé Roman History
- Sulpice-Severe Ammien Marcellin
- Orose
Speakers, Rhetoric
- Quintilien
- the Institution oratory
- Pediment
- Symmaque, Quintus Aurelius
Philosophy and Metaphysical speculation
- Cicéron
- De Republica
- Of legibus
- Sénèque
Scientific works and of scholarship
- Pline Old the
- the Natural history
- Aulu-Cold Varron
- the Nights Attics
- Macrobe
- Martianus Capella
- Censorinus
- Solin
- Plotius Sacerdos
- Nonius Marcellus
- Vitruve
- Of Structured
Related articles
- Latin Literature
- Phrases and Greek expressions
External bonds
- Greek and Latin Texts, translated into French, available on the fabric: Bibliotheca Classica Selected
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the laughter of Old the “literary” laughter in comic works of Antiquity by Philippe Hoffmann and Monique Trédé
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