Silver Age of Latin literature

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literary era period of Latin literature

The Silver Age of Latin literature was a period of the early Roman Empire marked by highly rhetorical, stylistically elaborate Latin prose and poetry produced by authors such as Tacitus, Seneca, and Juvenal.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Silver Age of Latin literature canonical	21
Augustan poetry	1
Roman literature	1
Silver Age Latin literature	1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary era ⓘ period of Latin literature ⓘ
associatedWith	early Roman Empire ⓘ
characterizedBy	declamatory rhetoric ⓘ highly rhetorical style ⓘ moral and philosophical themes ⓘ ornate prose ⓘ satirical tone ⓘ stylistic elaboration ⓘ
chronologicallyOverlaps	Flavian dynasty ⓘ reign of Domitian ⓘ reign of Nero ⓘ
endTime	2nd century CE ⓘ
follows	Augustan age ⓘ surface form: Golden Age of Latin literature
hasGenre	epigram ⓘ historiography ⓘ poetry ⓘ prose ⓘ rhetorical declamation ⓘ satire ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Frontinus ⓘ Juvenal ⓘ Lucan ⓘ Martial ⓘ Persius ⓘ Petronius ⓘ Pliny the Elder ⓘ Pliny the Younger ⓘ Quintilian ⓘ Seneca the Younger ⓘ Silius Italicus ⓘ Statius ⓘ Suetonius ⓘ Tacitus ⓘ Valerius Flaccus ⓘ
hasNotableWork	Annals ⓘ De vita Caesarum ⓘ Dialogus de oratoribus ⓘ Epigrams (Martial) ⓘ Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium ⓘ surface form: Epistulae morales ad Lucilium Histories ⓘ Institutio oratoria ⓘ Medea ⓘ Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ surface form: Pharsalia Juvenal ⓘ surface form: Satires (Juvenal) Satyricon ⓘ Silvae ⓘ Thebaid ⓘ Thyestes ⓘ
hasTheme	imperial politics ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ philosophical reflection ⓘ social criticism ⓘ tyranny and freedom ⓘ
influenced	Renaissance humanism ⓘ surface form: Renaissance humanists later Latin literature ⓘ medieval Latin writers ⓘ
influencedBy	Roman rhetorical education ⓘ Stoic philosophy ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
partOf	history of Latin literature ⓘ
startTime	1st century CE ⓘ
usedInContext	classical philology ⓘ literary history ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tacitus → era → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Metamorphoses by Apuleius → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Suetonius → era → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Augustan age → influenced → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Histories → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Dialogus de oratoribus → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Juvenal → movement → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Amazons → themeIn → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman literature

Georgics → literaryMovement → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Augustan poetry

Quintilian → era → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Lucan’s Pharsalia → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Velleius Paterculus → period → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

On Anger → period → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

On the Shortness of Life → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

De Beneficiis → period → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Hercules Oetaeus → period → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Troades → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Octavia → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Annals by Tacitus → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

subject surface form: Annals

Epistulae → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Octavia (pseudo-Senecan tragedy) → literaryPeriod → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Silver Age Latin literature

Lucan → movement → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ

Quintus Curtius Rufus → era → Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ