Ancient literature

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

Theater

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

Speakers

Philosophy and Metaphysical speculation

Scientific works and of scholarship

Latin authors

Epic poetry

Lyric poetry

Philosophical poetry

  • Lucrèce
    • Of will natura rerum

Satirical poetry

  • Persian Juvénal

the epigram:

Theater

Prose

History

Speakers, Rhetoric

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

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External bonds

  • Greek and Latin Texts, translated into French, available on the fabric: Bibliotheca Classica Selected

  • the laughter of Old the “literary” laughter in comic works of Antiquity by Philippe Hoffmann and Monique Trédé

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