Name 10 Latin poets?

Extra points If





a) you add a line ot two describing them in a way that suggest you have read their work





b) if some of them are post classical!





That means you can include mediaeval writers of hymns!

Name 10 Latin poets?
I think you're asking too much from us! lol Ok, I'll give it a try since I studied Latin for almost 4 years.


Columella : He's a classic writer. He was a farmer, a very famous farmer in Italy (most of his relatives were farmers, so he inherited this quality) so he mostly put farming "language" in his poetry.


Horace: I think he's one of the best know lyric poets in the world! Some of his works and words are still used today, some don't realize how Horace has influenced their language: "Carpe diem" (seize the day" ) comes from him. Even though he was a Roman born, he used Greek metres from the hexameter (I hope I spelt it right!).


Juvenal: that's how he's called in English, but in Latin is IUVENALIS which means Juvenile. His best known work is "The Satires", a description of society and community "mores" (customes and traditions, morals). This work is not to be mistaken to a real description of how life in Rome was. It's just a personal description.


Virgil: one of my favourites (after Caesar, he's the best!). I like his main work, the Aeneid, describing the life of a hero , Aeneas, who would then become the forefather of Rome. That's why he's considered a pivotal author in Rome. His tomb is still in Rome, sacred to the modern day Roman population.


Statius: I don't really like this one, but I had to study his works at school. Statius was very good at improvisations, and it is said that he could dictate two hundred lines in an hour while standing on one leg. That's amazing! His best know work is called "Silvae", but he also wrote some less-noted poems, but which took long elaboration from Statius.


Martial: he too is very famous, especially for his "Epigrams", and they're such an excellent work that he's even considered the master creator of modern Epigrams. In this he also clealry and fully describes life in Rome from his viewpoint.


Ovid: he was a very sensible writer, talking mostly about love, women and mythological transformations. Many authors admit being influenced by him, like Dante.


Catullus: He's another major in Latin poetry. He wrote 116 "carmina", which also include some epigrams. His works are interesting because you can see that he was influenced by Greek poetry as well. He was also a big fan of Sappho.


Jan Kochanowski: that's not in Roman times, he was a Polish poet in the Renaissance time. His earliest poems were entirely written in Latin. However, the rest of his works aren't.


Petrarch: he was a humanist in the Renaissance period. Even though he's best known for his Italian poetry, he was more interested in writing in Latin. An example is SECRETUM (which means SECRET, but what he meant is SECRET BOOK) in which he has a personal dialogue in Latin with Augustine of Hippo, and DE VIRIBUS ILLUSTRIBUS (about illustruous men) , a series of moral biographies.


I think that's even more than 10!! I hope it helped.
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