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Latin Lit AUTHORS & WORKS

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AnnalesEnnius - 18 books - hexameter
OriginesCato the Elder - first prose history - 7 books
Bellum PunicumNaevius - epic - saturnian
De Re Rustica1)Cato
AdelphiTerence
AndriaTerence
HecyraTerence
Heauton TimorumenosTerence
EunuchusTerence
PhormioTerence
Sermones1)Lucilius (Iter Siciliam) 2)Horace - 2 books (Iter Brundisium; Bore in the Forum; City/Country Mouse)
De Rerum NaturaLucretius - hexameter - 6 books - epicurean philosophy & atomic theory
Peleus & ThetisCatullus - Poem #64 - epillion
GeorgicsVirgil - didactic - hexameter - 4 bks
EcloguesVirgil - pastoral - hexamter - 10 poems
AeneidVirgil - epic - hexameter - 12 books
CataleptonVirgil (A.V.)
CirisVirgil (A.V.)
CopaVirgil (A.V.) "dancing girl"
CulexVirgil (A.V.) "gnat"
DiraeVirgil (A.V.)
MoretumVirgil (A.V.) "salad"
AetnaVirgil (A.V.)
Carmen SeculareHorace - for the Secular Games
EpodesHorace - 17 poems - lyric poems
OdesHorace - 4 books - Sappho & Alceus models
Epistles3 books - hexameter - Epistle ad Pisones & Ars Poetica
Ars PoeticaHorace ( 3rd Epistle)
Epistulae ad PisonesHorace (3rd Epistle)
Cynthia monbiblosPropertius - 1st book of 4 books of elegy
Ars AmatoriaOvid - "Art of Love"
Remedia AmorisOvid
Metamorphoses1) Ovid - 15 bks - hexameter 2)Apuleius - aka The Golden Ass - 11 bks
TristiaOvid - 5 bks
Epistulae ex PontoOvid
HeroidesOvid - 21 letters from deserted heroines
FastiOvid - on the Roman calendar
In VerremCicero - 4 speeches against Verres corrupt Gov. of Sicily
In CatalinamCicero - 4 speeches against Cataline who conspired to overthrow Cicero's consulship (63 B.C.)
De Re PublicaCicero - contains the "Somnium Scipionis" (Dream of Scipio)
De SenectuteCicero - phil. tract "On Old Age" - Cato plays a part
Pro Lege Manilia (On the Manilian Law)Cicero - supports Pompey's command
Pro MiloneCicero - support of Milo's murder of Clodius - lost the case
De Natura DeorumCicero - on the forces that control life
Tusculanae DisputationesCicero
De AmicitiaCicero (also know as the Laelius)
Commentarii De Bello GallicoCaesar - On the Gallic War - 7 books (8th book written by Hirtius)
Commentarii De Bello CiviliCaesar - On the Civil War (49-48)
De AnalogiaCaesar - lost work on grammar
AnticatonesCaesar - 2 books - reply to the "Cato" of Cicero
De Lingua LatinaVarro - 25 book dict & gram
ChronicaCornelius Nepos - 3 bks - universal history
ExemplaVarro - anecdotes
De Viris Illustribus1)Cornelius Nepos - biographies mostly non-Romans
Bellum JugurthinumSallust - On the Jugurthine War
Bellum CatallinaeSallust - On Cataline's Conspiracy
Ab Urbe ConditaLivy - 142 bks (35 extant)
Res GestaeAugustus - "Accomplishments"
De ArchitecturaVitruvius - 10 bks - dedic. to Augustus
PharsaliaLucan - 10 bks - epic - Pompey is hero
"Aesopian" fablesPhaedrus - 5 books of fables
PhillipicsCicero - 14 vitriolic speeches against Marc Antony
PunicaSilius Italicus - 17 bk - on 2nd Punic War - longest Latin poem
SatyriconPetronius (Arbiter) - first novel - contains Trimalchio's dinner
Naturalis HistoriaPliny the Elder - 37 bk encyclopedia
Institutio OratioQuintilian - 12 bks on rhetoric
De Causis Corruptae EloquentiaeQuintilian
letter to Trajan about ChristiansPliny the Youger (while gov. of Bithynia)
Letter to Tacitus about VesuviusPliny the Younger memorializes his uncle Pliny the Elder
Asinus AureusApuleius - aka Metamorphoses - 11 books
Cupid and PsycheApuleius - story is part of the Golden Ass/Metamorphoses
Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights)Aulus Gellius - 20 bks - collection of stories
Androclus and the LionAulus Gellius - one of the stories in his Noctes Atticae
ApocoloncyntosisSeneca the Younger - satire on death of Claudius (pumkin-god)
SatiresJuvenal - 5 bks with 16 satires
EpigrammataMartial - 12 bks - mostly elegaic
Liber SpectaculorumMartial - 30 epigrams commemorating opening of Colosseum in 80 AD
AgricolaTacitus - about his father-in-law's exploits in Britain
GermaniaTacitus - about the German tribes
Dialogue de OratoribusTacitus - 4 men discuss decline of oratory
the ConfessionsSt. Augustine
City of GodSt. Augustine


Mr. Bray
Antonian College Prep

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