Literature improvement

[JimmyPaolini]

Early

• [ ] Livius Andronicus - translated Odyssey
• [ ] Gnaeus Naevius - epic poem about First Punic War
• [ ] Quintus Ennius - wrote Annals, about Roman history. Adopted Greek dactylic hexameter
• [ ] Marcus Pacuvius, Lucius Accius (Fragments)
• [ ] Plautus - wrote 20 comedies
• [ ] Terence - wrote 6 comedies
• [ ] Cato - wrote On Agriculture
• [ ] Gaius Lucilius - poetry in Satires, easy conversational tone

Golden Age

• [x] Virgil
• [x] Caesar
• [x] Augustus
• [x] Ovid
• [x] Cicero
• [x] Catullus
• [ ] Sallust - historical writer
• [ ] Lucretius - De Rerum Natura about epicurean philosophy
• [ ] Marcus Terentius Varro - various subjects, some fragments some whole
• [ ] Horace - Epodes, Odes (very notable), Satires, Epistles
• [ ] Tibullus, Propertius - elegy, contemporary to Ovid
• [ ] Livy - prose history of Rome

Imperial Period

• [ ] Seneca - stoic philosopher
• [ ] Lucan - poet, wrote Pharsalia about Caesar/Pompey civil war
• [ ] Petronius - Satyricon, first picaresque Latin novel (only fragments)
• [ ] Gaius Valerius Flaccus - Argonautica, about Jason/Golden Fleece
• [ ] Statius - Thebaid, about Oedipus
• [ ] Silius Italicus - Punica, about Second Punic War (Hannibal)
• [ ] Martial - epigram writer
• [ ] Juvenal - satire writer
• [ ] Tacitus - historian, wrote Histories and Annals
• [ ] Suetonius - biographer of Roman rulers Caesar through Domitian
• [ ] Pliny Minor - letters about Roman life
• [ ] Aulus Gellius - wrote Attic Nights, anecddotes an literary discussions among friends
• [ ] Marcus Cornelius Fronto - orator who wrote letters to Marcus Aurelius
• [ ] Apuuleius - wrote his Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), about a young man who's turned into a donkey

Middle Ages, Neo Latin

• [ ] Ammianus Marcellinus - wrote history
• [ ] Quintus Aurelius Symmachus - orator
• [ ] Ausonius - poet, wrote Mosella which has a modern feeling to it
• [ ] Rutilius Claudius Namatianus - poet
• [ ] Descartes
• [ ] Francis Bacon
• [ ] Baruch Spinoza
• [ ] Swedenborg
• [ ] Linnaeus
• [ ] Euler
• [ ] Gauss
• [ ] Newton
• [ ] Milton
• [ ] Thomas Campion
• [ ] George Herbert
• [ ] Andrew Marvell
• [ ] Anthony Alsopp, Vincent Bourne - noted for pure Classical style
• [ ] Raphael Landivar - Rusticatio Mexicana

Christian

• [x] Vulgate Bible
• [ ] Augustine of Hippo
• [ ] Jerome
• [ ] Ambrose
• [ ] Prudentius - first great Christian poet