History Of Latin Literature

Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latinlanguage, remains an enduring legacy of the culture ofancient Rome. The Romans produced many works of poetry,comedy, tragedy, satire, history, and rhetoric, drawingheavily on the traditions of other cultures andparticularlyon the more matured literary tradition of Greece.Long afterthe Western Roman Empire had fallen, the Latin languagecontinued to play a central role in western Europeancivilization.