Talk:Latin literature

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Among a few other reclassifications and additions, I've added a section on "Early Latin literature", since Plautus and Terence don't really belong in the Golden Age, and Ennius seems to deserve a mention. -- EALacey 20:47, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Should mediaeval and Christian Latin literature be on its own page? Just about all Western European literature before 1200 or thereabouts is in Latin. Classicists typically neglect anything written after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and tend to devalue works from after say 200 or so. -- IHCOYC 17:31 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Should authors' works be listed along with the authors? I notice a few links, eg. to the Aeneid or the Gallic Wars... but those aren't the only works by Vergil and Caesar. So should this aim to be a comprehensive list of works, or just links to authors' pages which have lists of works? Basically I'm asking... why just Aeneid and De Bello Gallico...? -- Danno 7 May 2004

I've expanded the main article considerably, and removed the request for expansion. Of course, there's still much more that could be said on the subject, and I don't mean to imply otherwise. GBWallenstein 22:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Regarding Collaboration of the Week: it seems we've missed the deadline there, about a month and a half ago. So we will have to re-submit the request. It'd be nice if Wiki automatically took the sign down when the deadline passed; I saw the sign and assumed the request was still current and pending. Since it's not, I took down the sign. GBWallenstein 22:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latin texts

Maybe I've missed it, but wouldn't it be nice to put all the old Latin texts into the Wiki? Or is that not allowed due to copyright reasons?--Van der Hoorn 13:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

There are no copyrights on the Latin texts themselves; modern editions, however, which include a fair amount of comparison and reconstruction work by the editors, may be copyrighted. Older editions from the 1800s are fair game to include (as are older English translations whose copyrights have expired). The place to put them, however, is not Wikipedia itself but Wikisource -- Ferkelparade π 14:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Then maybe it's nice to put a reference somewhere to Wikisource, so people may be aware of the fact that Latin texts are available.--Van der Hoorn 16:13, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
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