Portal:Latin language and literature
Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets, and ultimately from the Phoenician alphabet. Latin was originally spoken in the area surrounding Rome, known as Latium. Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language, initially in Italy and subsequently throughout the western Roman Empire.
By the late Roman Republic (75 BCE), Old Latin had been standardised into Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial form spoken during the same time and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like Plautus and Terence. Vulgar Latin developed into the Romance languages, such as Italian, Spanish, and French.
Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd to the 9th century, followed by Medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin. During this time, Latin was used as the language of international communication and scholarship until well into the 18th century, when it was supplanted by vernaculars. Later forms of Latin are termed Early Modern and Modern. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the official language of the Holy See and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.This section only includes English translations of Latin texts, and works written in English. For texts in Latin, see Latin Wikisource.
This section only includes English translations. For Latin texts, consult Latin Wikisource
Language edit
- Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners; key to Easy Latin Stories
- Latin for beginners, 1909 by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
- The New Latin Primer, 1888 by Postgate & Vince
- A Latin Dictionary, 1879 by Charlton T. Lewis
Literature by era edit
Ancient literature edit
Early Christian literature edit
- See also: Portal:Pre-Nicene Christianity and Portal:Post-Nicene Christianity
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anonymous
Medieval literature edit
- Peter Abelard and Heloise
- Bede
- Bercharius
- Bernard Gui
- Bernard of Kilwinning
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Gildas:
- Henry of Huntingdon
- Jocelyn of Furness
- Menumorut
- Nennius
- Orderic Vitalis
- St Patrick
- Author:Thomas Aquinas
- Saxo Grammaticus
- Anonymous
Early Modern literature edit
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa
- George Canning
- The Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1789, translated by N.L. Torre
- René Descartes
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Thomas Hobbes
- Arngrímur Jónsson
- Immanuel Kant
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Baruch Spinoza
- Emanuel Swedenborg
Early Modern arts and science edit
Modern literature edit
- Augusto Bonetti to the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
- Bishop Augusto Bonetti on the talks with Theodosius, the Metropolitan of Skopje
- The congregation for the propagation of the faith to Augusto Bonetti
- The congregation for the propagation of the Faith to Augusto Bonetti - Second letter
Literature by type edit
Inscriptions edit
- Arch of Claudius
- Epitaph of Jonathan Swift
- Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
Poetry edit
Biographies edit
Legislation edit
Miscellaneous literature edit
Collections of Latin literature edit
Works about Latin literature edit
- "Latin Literature," by William Young Sellar and John Percival Postgate in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
- Plautus and Terence, by William Lucas Collins (1873)
- Virgil, by William Lucas Collins (1870)
Reference edit
- A as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- B as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- C as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- E as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- J as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Q as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
See also edit
- Portal:Appendix Vergiliana (works spuriously ascribed to Virgil)
- Portal:Classical Latin literature