HISTORY
Herodotus
Thucydides
BIOGRAPHY
Plato
Plutarch
DRAMA
Æschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
PHILOSOPHY
Epictetus
Plato
Latin Literature. The power of organization, with an ardor for law and order, combined with a genius for adapting and utilizing the best products of the nations which came under the Roman rule. This talent for adaptation and imitation stands in contrast to the Greek creative talent. Inasmuch as Rome's greatest literary works belong to a period four centuries after the best Greek production, it follows that the Roman authors profited not only by Greek achievement but also by the increased knowledge of the world due to the vast extension of the Roman Empire. Apart from this broader point of view, Latin authors borrowed method and style from the Greek; Vergil follows Homer and Theocritus, who was also imitated by Horace. Cicero and Seneca took both thought and style from Greek philosophers. In fact, Athens was the university at which all well-educated Romans had studied.
POETRY
Catullus
Horace
Ovid
Vergil
FICTION
Apuleius
HISTORY
Cæsar
Josephus[2]
Livy
Suetonius
Tacitus
BIOGRAPHY
Pliny
PHILOSOPHY
Aurelius
Cicero
Lucretius
Seneca