Latin writers......

[Helga]

I have to write an essay about a latin author in my Latin class and I was just wondering if any of you know a interesting one?

I have a few in mind but I was hoping for someone who isn't very well known...maybe even a woman......

[Jack_Aubrey]

Cicero. Need I say more?

[mono]

Cicero. Need I say more?
I wonder if Helga means someone of the Latin ethnicity (Spanish-speaking), or someone who wrote in Latin (Cicero as I good example).

[Helga]

sorry for not making it clear.... I mean who wrote in latin!

I'm learning latin in school and my essay is to be about someone who wrote in latin and I have to choose a story or a poem by him/her.

[Ia Nabu]

Eh, yeah, I only now realized that you said "someone not that well known" ... Sorry about that. Well at least I can't think of any female authors that wrote in Latin, but I'm sure there's someone over here who can help you with that.

[Helga]

I know this is pretty hard to find out, I'll most likely end with someone easy to find info on but I want to do something different...

[Rechka]

I don't know if my suggestions will come in handy but here they are anyway. Aside from the better known Ovid, Virgil and Seneca, maybe Cornelius Tacitus, Terence or Titus Livius.

A woman? Hmmm...

[baddad]

Lesser known female writers, in latin? No problem!

A Google search (*writers female latin* ...the 3 words I used together to search) turns up a plethora of opportunities in this genre... and the choices will allow you to stay a little bit 'outside the box, as you seem to want to do with your choice. Often professors award a higher mark for a paper written on a subject they have not seen or appraised 1000 times before: it makes it more interesting for them and you! So have at it, go hard, good luck!

P.S. The availability of 'short stories' by female authors written in latin is a bonus with this search: check out many universitys' web pages, "Latin Studies" University of California at Berkley, Yale, Harvard, or any University on the planet hosting a web page......

[mono]

Not many people know the fact, but John Milton wrote all of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained in Latin; I know he renders himself as exceedingly popular, against your wishes, Helga, but many people recognize him as the last writer of the fluent Latin language, along with French thinker, Michel de Montaigne, who spoke and wrote more Latin than his native French.

[Helga]

thanks you guys, this helps a lot and I will definetly use these informations!

[Koa]

I would suggest Seneca just cos I think he's the most interesting in philosophical terms, but your choice is based on different considerations...

mono, wait a second, Milton wrote P.Lost in Latin? And then he translated it himself or what? It;s English literature we study in English classes so this Latin thing sounds new to me...