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Latin literature flourished for the next six centuries. The classical era of Latin literature can be roughly divided into several periods: Early Latin literature, The Golden Age, The Imperial Period and Late Antiquity. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans as well as being the lingua franca of Western and Central Europe throughout the ...
Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature, from broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD, possibly extending to broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries. For literature prior to this period, see Old Latin literature.
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus , the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature , are estimated to have been composed around 205–184 BC.
Poem of Almería (Latin) Eupolemius (Latin) by an anonymous German-speaking author; Bahman Nama and Kush Nama (Persian) ascribed to Hakim Īrānšāh b. Abi'l Khayr; Banu Goshasp Nama (Persian) Ramavataram (Tamil) by Kambar, based on the "Ramayana" Cycle of the First Crusade (Old French) by Graindor de Douai and others
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It formed parallel to Vulgar Latin around 75 BC out of Old Latin, and developed by the 3rd century AD into Late Latin. In some later periods, the former was regarded as good or proper Latin; the latter as ...
Vulgar Latin, as in this political graffito at Pompeii, was the language of the ordinary people of the Roman Empire, distinct from the Classical Latin of literature. Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects ...
Authors are still producing original books in Latin today. This page lists contemporary or recent books (from the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries) originally written in Latin . These books are not called "new" because the term Neo-Latin or New Latin refers to books written as early as the 1500s, which is "newer" than Classical Antiquity or the ...
Alliteration was a prominent feature of Latin literature (in contrast to Greek), especially in poetry in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, and continued to be used by some writers even in the Middle Ages. Definitions