Old Latin

Old Latin is the earliest documented stage of Latin literature, represented by works from the third through early first centuries BCE. Its surviving texts include drama, epic poetry, and satire.

Latin: Latin is an Italic language that originated in Latium and became the language of ancient Rome. Old Latin literature is the earliest literary record of this language.
Fabula palliata: Fabula palliata is a Roman comedy set in Greece, typically adapted from Greek New Comedy. Plautus and Terence used this form to recast Greek plots for Roman stages.
Livius Andronicus: Livius Andronicus was a Greek-born Roman poet and playwright active in the third century BCE. His Latin translation of the Odyssey and staged dramas mark the beginnings of Roman literary tradition.
Odusia: The Odusia is Livius Andronicus’s fragmentary Latin verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey. It is the earliest known Latin epic and an example of translation as literary creation.
Latin alphabet: The Latin alphabet is the writing system used for Latin and the ancestor of many modern alphabets. Its early inscriptions and letter forms provide evidence for the language of Old Latin texts.
Fabula togata: Fabula togata is a Roman comedy set in Italy and featuring Roman characters. It shows how comedy moved beyond the Greek settings common in early Latin drama.
Gnaeus Naevius: Gnaeus Naevius was a Roman poet and playwright who wrote tragedy, comedy, and an epic on the First Punic War. His historical epic brought Roman subject matter into a literary form shaped by Greek models.
Bellum Poenicum: Bellum Poenicum is Gnaeus Naevius’s fragmentary epic on the First Punic War. It fused Roman history with epic conventions in an early Latin poem.
Roman comedy: Roman comedy is a theatrical genre whose surviving plays include works by Plautus and Terence. Comedy became the best-preserved genre of Old Latin literature.
Greek New Comedy: Greek New Comedy is a theatrical tradition centered on domestic plots, mistaken identities, and social relations. Its plays and conventions supplied major models for Roman comic playwrights.

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