====== Razvoj rimske književnosti po uzoru na grčku ======
  - //ludi Romani//, u rujnu, u čast Jupitera; najstarije
  - //ludi plebei//, sredinom studenoga; plebejci su posebna društvena skupina  
  - //ludi florales//, proljetna svetkovina (konac travnja, početak svibnja), uvedeni 240. ili 238.
  - //ludi Apollinares//, 13. srpnja, u čast Apolona, od 212.
  - //ludi Megalenses//, 10. travnja, u čast maloazijske božice Kibele (Magna Mater), od 204.
  - //ludi Ceriales//, sredina travnja, u čast Cerere

====== Suetonius (c. 69 – c. 122) ======
{{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nuremberg_chronicles_f_111r_1.png/200px-Nuremberg_chronicles_f_111r_1.png |Svetonije}}

Suet. De rhetoribus 1 (izvor: [[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Rhetoribus*.html]])

<blockquote>Rhetorica quoque apud nos perinde atque grammatica fere recepta est, paululo etiam difficilius, quippe quam constet nonnunquam etiam prohibitam exerceri. Quod ne cui dubium sit, vetus S. C. item censorium edictum subiciam: "C. Fannio Strabone M. Valerio Messala coss. M. Pomponius praetor senatum consuluit. Quod verba facta sunt de philosophis et rhetoribus, de ea re ita censuerunt, ut M. Pomponius praetor animadverteret curaretque, ut ei e re p. fideque sua videretur, uti Romae ne essent."</blockquote>
====== Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – post 180 AD) ======
Gell. 6,14,8--10. Izvor: [[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Gellius/6*.html]]
<blockquote>Animadversa eadem tripertita varietas est in tribus philosophis, quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum populi R. legaverant inpetratum, uti multam remitteret, quam fecerat is propter Oropi vastationem. Ea multa fuerat talentum fere quingentum. Erant isti philosophi Carneades ex Academia, Diogenes Stoicus, Critolaus Peripateticus. Et in senatum quidem introducti interprete usi sunt C. Acilio senatore; sed ante ipsi seorsum quisque ostentandi gratia magno conventu hominum dissertaverunt. Tum admirationi fuisse aiunt Rutilius et Polybius philosophorum trium sui cuiusque generis facundiam. "Violenta" inquiunt "et rapida Carneades dicebat, scita et teretia Critolaus, modesta Diogenes et sobria."</blockquote>
====== Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254--184 a. Chr) ======
{{http://eventiculturalimagazine.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/mostellaria.jpg |Mostellaria}} Plaut. Most. 20--24\\
(izvor: [[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-lat1:1]])
<blockquote>
nunc, dum tibi lúbet licetque, pota, perde rem,\\
corrumpe erilem ádulescentem óptumum;\\
dies noctesque bibite, pergraecamini,\\
amicas emite liberate, pascite\\
parasitos, obsonate pollucibiliter.</blockquote>
====== Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 Dec. 65 a. Chr. – 27 Nov. 8 a. Chr) ======
{{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Quinto_Orazio_Flacco.jpg?200 |Horacije}} Hor. epist. 2,1,156--160\\
(izvor: [[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/horace/epist2.shtml]])
<blockquote>Graecia capta ferum uictorem cepit et artes\\
intulit agresti Latio; sic horridus ille\\
defluxit numerus Saturnius, et graue uirus\\
munditiae pepulere; sed in longum tamen aeuum\\
manserunt hodieque manent uestigia ruris.</blockquote>
====== Publius Vergilius Maro (Oct. 15, 70 a. Chr. -- Sept. 21, 19 a. Chr) ======
{{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Vergilius.jpg |Vergilije}} Verg. Aen. 6,847--853\\
(izvor: [[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vergil/aen6.shtml]])
<blockquote>excudent alii spirantia mollius aera\\
(credo equidem), uiuos ducent de marmore uultus,\\
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus\\
describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent:\\
tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento\\
(hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,\\
parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.' </blockquote>
====== Druga faza prisvajanja grčke književnosti ======
  * Katul (c. 84 – c. 54 a. Chr) --- Kalimah (m. 240 a. Chr.)
  * Lukrecije  (c. 99 -- c. 55 a. Chr) --- Empedoklo (490--430 a. Chr)
  * Ciceron (106--43 a. Chr) --- atički govornici IV. st. pr. Kr., Platon (427--347 a. Chr)
  * Vergilije (70--19 a. Chr) --- Teokrit (III. st. pr. Kr), Hesiod (c. 750--650 pr. Kr), Homer (VIII. st. pr. Kr)
  * Horacije (65--8 a. Chr) --- grčka jambika i lirika (VII--V st. pr. Kr)