Classical Latin literature

1st-century Roman military commander and writer

high-prestige form of the Latin language in the Roman Republic and Empire

story from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius

collection of twelve ancient Roman panegyric orations

chronicle

ancient Greek rhetorical tendency in the 3rd century BCE

4th-century work by St. Jerome

series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends

literary work

book by Celsus

The consolatio or consolatory oration is a type of ceremonial oratory, typically used rhetorically to comfort mourners at funerals. It was one of the most popular classical rhetoric topics, and received new impetus under Renaissance humanism.

Latin literature written during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE)

Commentarii (Latin, Greek: hupomnemata) are notes to assist the memory, or memoranda. This original idea of the word gave rise to a variety of meanings: notes and abstracts of speeches for the assistance of orators; family memorials, the origin of many of the legends introduced into early Roman history from a desire to glorify a particular family; and diaries of events occurring in their own circle kept by private individuals. An example of this is the day-book drawn up for Trimalchio in Petronius's Satyricon (Satyricon, 53) by his actuarius, a slave to whom the duty was specially assigned. Ot