Knowra Augustan literature Augustan literature Augustan literature is Latin writing produced during Augustus’s reign, 27 BCE–14 CE, and the surrounding decades. It includes poetry and prose shaped by Rome’s civil wars, imperial rule, and claims of renewal.
Augustan Age : The period of Roman history associated with Augustus’s rule and the political settlement that followed civil war. The literary period takes its name from this broader political and cultural era.
Virgil : A Roman poet whose major works include the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid. His poetry became the central model of Augustan literary achievement.
Imperial cult : Religious practices that honored Roman emperors and members of their families as divine or divinely favored. Poems could engage the religious language surrounding Augustus’s status and authority.
Maecenas : A Roman statesman and patron who supported poets including Virgil and Horace. His circle linked major writers with the political settlement under Augustus.
Republican Roman literature : Latin literature produced during the Roman Republic, before Augustus established the principate. Its political world of competitive aristocrats differs from the centralized Augustan settlement.
Roman literature : Literature written in Latin or Greek within the Roman world, from its beginnings through late antiquity. Augustan writing forms a particularly influential period within Roman literary history.
Horace : A Roman poet known for lyric odes, satires, epistles, and the Ars Poetica. His varied poetry joins polished form with reflection on Roman society and power.
Roman triumph : A public procession granted by Rome to a victorious commander, celebrating military conquest and spoils. Triumphal imagery supplied poets with a vocabulary for victory and imperial power.
Augustus : Rome’s first emperor, who ruled from 27 BCE to 14 CE and reshaped its political institutions. His rule supplied the era’s political context and a recurring subject of praise and critique.
Neronian literature : Latin literature produced during the reign of Nero, from 54 to 68 CE. Its sharper court politics and stylistic intensity offer a later imperial counterpoint.
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