ancient Roman literature

C12942

concept

Ancient Roman literature encompasses the body of written works produced in Latin (and some Greek) by Roman authors, reflecting the political, social, philosophical, and artistic life of Rome from its early Republic through the Imperial period.

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All labels observed (15)

Label	Occurrences
ancient Roman literature canonical	13
Latin work	10
ancient Roman work	7
work of Latin literature	3
ancient Roman literary work	2
Latin literary corpus	1
Roman literary movement	1
Roman literature work	1
Roman religious text	1
ancient Roman literature work	1
ancient Roman text	1
classical Latin literature	1
classical Latin literature work	1
period of Latin literature	1
work by Ovid	1

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Class: ancient Roman literature

Generated description

Ancient Roman literature encompasses the body of written works produced in Latin (and some Greek) by Roman authors, reflecting the political, social, philosophical, and artistic life of Rome from its early Republic through the Imperial period.

Instances (45)

Instance	Via concept surface
De Medicina	ancient Roman work
Silver Age of Latin literature	period of Latin literature
Histories	—
Dialogus de oratoribus	ancient Roman text
De architectura	ancient Roman work
history of Rome surface form: History of Rome	—
Commentarii de Bello Civili	—
Remedia Amoris	ancient Roman literature work
Heroides	work by Ovid
Tristia	work of Latin literature
Lucan’s Pharsalia	Roman literature work
Germania (work by Tacitus)	—
Fabulae	Latin work
De vita Caesarum	—
From the Founding of the City	—
De sacramentis	Latin work
To Himself	—
Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam	Latin work
Jerome's Chronicon	Latin work
De institutione astronomica	Latin work
De lingua Latina	ancient Roman work
Jerome’s Commentary on Galatians	Latin work
Seniles	Latin work
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History	ancient Roman work
Bellum Catilinae	—
Sibylline books surface form: Sibylline Books	Roman religious text
Naturalis Historia	ancient Roman work
Tacitus’ Histories	—
Institutio oratoria	ancient Roman work
Ten Books on Architecture	ancient Roman work
De oratore, Book I	—
Commentaries on the Civil War	—
Medicamina Faciei Femineae	ancient Roman literary work
The Art of Love	ancient Roman literary work
Neoteric poetry	Roman literary movement
Carmina	work of Latin literature
Meditations	—
Ovid’s Metamorphoses	classical Latin literature work
Confessio	Latin work
De Bono Pudicitiae	Latin work
Compendium of Roman History	—
Epistle to the Pisos	classical Latin literature
Epodi	work of Latin literature
Horatian corpus	Latin literary corpus
Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha	Latin work